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past anterior

noun

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  1. A compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, in function a…

    A compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, in function a pluperfect, and in form composed of the conjunction of the simple past tense of an auxiliary verb (avoir, être) with the past participle. Example: Après que la femme et l'homme l'eurent remercié = After the woman and the man had thanked him

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No curated loop yet for past anterior. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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