Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pluperfect_tense

1 sense of pluperfect tense

Sense 1
past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tense -- (a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect")
       => perfective, perfective tense, perfect, perfect tense -- (a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect))