Local English word record

pluperfect tense

noun · 1 sense

a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past

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Examples

  • `I had finished' is an example of the past perfect

Word relationships

Synonyms

past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect

Source and method

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Princeton WordNet 3.0