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English
Etymology
From Latin plus (“more”) + perfectus (“perfect”).
Noun
pluperfect tense (plural pluperfect tenses)
- (grammar, of a verb) 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.
Synonyms
Translations
tense
- Bulgarian: ми́нало предвари́телно вре́ме n (mínalo predvarítelno vréme), плусквамперфе́кт m (pluskvamperfékt)
- Catalan: plusquamperfet (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 過去完成時 / 过去完成时 (guòqù wánchéngshí, guòqù wánchéng shí)
- Czech: plusquamperfektum n
- Dutch: voltooid verleden tijd (nl) m, plusquamperfectum (nl) n
- Esperanto: pluskvamperfekto (eo)
- Faroese: táliðin tíð f
- Finnish: pluskvamperfekti (fi)
- French: plus-que-parfait (fr) m
- German: Plusquamperfekt (de) n; Vorvergangenheit (de) f, vollendete Vergangenheit f
- Greek: υπερσυντέλικος (el) m (ypersyntélikos)
- Ancient: ὑπερσυντέλικος m (hupersuntélikos)
- Hungarian: régmúlt (hu)
- Ido: plusquamperfekto (io)
- Italian: trapassato prossimo (it) m
- Japanese: 大過去 (ja) (だいかこ, daikako)
- Korean: 과거완료 (ko) (gwageowallyo)
- Latin: plusquamperfectum n
- Macedonian: плусквамперфект m (pluskvamperfekt)
- Norwegian: pluskvamperfektum m
- Persian: ماضی بعید (mâzi-e ba'id)
- Polish: czas zaprzeszły (pl) m
- Portuguese: pretérito mais-que-perfeito (pt), mais-que-perfeito (pt) m
- Romanian: mai mult ca perfect n
- Russian: давнопроше́дшее вре́мя (ru) n (davnoprošédšeje vrémja), предпроше́дшее вре́мя n (predprošédšeje vrémja), плюсквамперфе́кт (ru) m (pljuskvamperfékt)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: плусквампѐрфект m, плусквампѐрфекат m, давно прошло време n
- Roman: pluskvampèrfekt (sh) m
- Spanish: pluscuamperfecto (es) m
- Swedish: pluskvamperfekt (sv) n, pluskvamperfektum (sv) n
- Ukrainian: давномину́лий час m (davnomynúlyj čas), плюсквамперфе́кт m (pljuskvamperfékt)
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