PLUPERFECT TENSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past

Example:

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

Synonyms:

past perfect; past perfect tense; pluperfect; pluperfect tense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("pluperfect tense" is a kind of...):

perfect; perfect tense; perfective; perfective tense (a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect))

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