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Past Perfect Tense

Definition: Past Perfect Tense

Past Perfect Tense

Noun

1. A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonyms: Past Perfect Tense

Synonyms: past perfect (n), pluferfect tense (n), pluperfect (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Past Perfect Tense

Specialty definitions using "past perfect tense": Flee, Fly. (references)

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Modern Translations: Past Perfect Tense

Language Translations for "past perfect tense"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

過去完了 , 大過去 (pluperfect). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

か"か"りょう, いか" (pluperfect). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astpay erfectpay ensetay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Past Perfect Tense

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-e-f-n-p-p-r-s-s-t-t-t"

-5 letters: pacesetters, perfectness, stepparents, streetscape.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Past Perfect Tense


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 73 74      50 65 72 66 65 63 74      54 65 6E 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110011 01110100 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110010 01100110 01100101 01100011 01110100 00100000 01010100 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#80 &#101 &#114 &#102 &#101 &#99 &#116 &#32 &#84 &#101 &#110 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0073 0074      0050 0065 0072 0066 0065 0063 0074      0054 0065 006E 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5067858625071847271698625471808571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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