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pluperfect tenses

pluperfect tenses is the plural of pluperfect tense.

Meaning of pluperfect tense

Noun

pluperfect tense (plural pluperfect tenses)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    past perfect progressive, past perfect, past perfect tense

Questions about pluperfect tenses

What is pluperfect tenses the plural of?
Pluperfect tenses is the plural of pluperfect tense.

Words near pluperfect tenses in the dictionary

  1. pluots
  2. plup
  3. plupatriotic
  4. pluperfect
  5. pluperfect tense
  6. pluperfect tenses
  7. pluperfection
  8. pluperfections
  9. pluperfectly
  10. pluperfectness
  11. pluperfects

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