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PAST PERFECT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does past perfect mean?

• PAST PERFECT (noun)
The noun PAST PERFECT has 1 sense:

1. a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past

Familiarity information: PAST PERFECT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PAST PERFECT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

past perfect; past perfect tense; pluperfect; pluperfect tense

Context example:

'I had finished' is an example of the past perfect

Hypernyms ("past perfect" is a kind of...):

perfect; perfect tense; perfective; perfective tense (a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect))

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