pluperfect 的 2 个定义
- 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.
Grammar.
- the pluperfect tense, or other verb formation or construction with such meaning.a form in the pluperfect.
更多pluperfect例句
- 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.