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Pluperfect tense

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before a past setting or the imperfect; formed in English by adding had before the past participle of a verb, or by adding had been before the present participle of the verb.
  2. 2
    a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past wordnet

Etymology

From Latin plus (“more”) + perfectus (“perfect”).

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