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past perfect

past perfect

 
pronunciation:
paest puhr fihkt
part of speech: noun
definition 1: a verb tense that indicates that an action or state was completed at some indefinite time before a moment in the past, as in "They had already gone".
definition 2: a verb form in this tense, such as "had gone".