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pluperfect tense

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables
plu-per-fec-t tense
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

pluperfect tenses (plural)

Synonyms

past perfect progressive past perfect past perfect tense pluperfect

Questions

What does pluperfect tense mean?
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.
Where does pluperfect tense come from?
From Latin plus (“more”) + perfectus (“perfect”).

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