pluperfect

/ploo-pur-fikt/US // pluˈpɜr fɪkt //UK // (pluːˈpɜːfɪkt) //

半过去式,半过去时,二次方,二次函数

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : Grammar. perfect with respect to a point of reference in past time, as had done in He had done it when I came.designating a tense or other verb formation or construction with such meaning, as Latin portāveram “I had carried.”
- : more than perfect: He spoke the language with pluperfect precision.

n.名词 noun

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Grammar.
- : the pluperfect tense, or other verb formation or construction with such meaning.a form in the pluperfect.

Note that in forming the pluperfect subjunctive certain writers often use fuisset for esset.
The verbal forms in-ara and-iera were used then as now as the equivalent of the pluperfect or the preterit indicative.
The same applies to similar citations under Perfect and Pluperfect.
The perfect tense value is often represented by the present (and the pluperfect by the imperfect) after despus or hace (ago).
In the earliest Latin the pluperfect is not uncommonly used with the value of the aorist perfect.