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pluperfect tense

noun

Etymology

From Latin plus (“more”) + perfectus (“perfect”).

  1. learned borrowing from perfectus
  2. compounded as pluperfect tense — “plus + perfectus”

Definitions

  1. Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before a past setting or…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA