English noun: past perfect tense | |||
| 1. | past perfect tense a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past | ||
| Samples | `I had finished' is an example of the past perfect. | ||
| Synonyms | past perfect, pluperfect, pluperfect tense | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | perfect, perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense | ||