pluperfect

[ UK /plˈuːpəfˌɛkt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
    `I had finished' is an example of the past perfect
ADJECTIVE
  1. more than perfect
    he spoke with pluperfect precision
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How To Use pluperfect In A Sentence

  • The verbal forms in-_ara_ and-_iera_ were used then as now as the equivalent of the pluperfect or the preterit indicative. Modern Spanish Lyrics
  • The bookman is the only one that actually gives translations of the various tenses including pluperfect subjunctive. Electronic Dictionary ?
  • Maude, on the other hand, had gone deep into the pluperfect, eleven generations of it.
  • he spoke with pluperfect precision
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