pretérito mais-que-perfeito

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Portuguese

Etymology

Literally, more-than-perfect (i.e. pluperfect) preterite.

Noun

pretérito mais-que-perfeito m (usually uncountable, plural pretéritos mais-que-perfeitos)

  1. pluperfect (tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before another past event)