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