Past Perfect

Definition: Past Perfect

Past Perfect

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

Crosswords: Past Perfect

Life is like a grammar lesson: You find the past perfect and the present tense. (references; author: unknown)

Past Perfect (2002)

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Books

• Past Perfect (reference)

• Past Perfect [3 1/2 Diskette, HTML] (reference)

• Past Perfect Future Tense: A Collection of Short Stories, Poems, and Incoherent Ramblings (reference)

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Theater & Movies

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Expressions using "past perfect": past perfect tense ♦ the past perfect. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏صيغة الماضي الأسبق. (various references)

French

plus-que-parfait. (various references)

German

plusquamperfekt (pluperfect). (various references)

Greek 

υπερσυντέλικοσ (pluperfect). (various references)

Hungarian

régmúlt (bygone, elder days, pluperfect), befejezett múlt. (various references)

Italian

piuccheperfetto (pluperfect), trapassato. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

過去完了 (past perfect tense), 大過去 (past perfect tense, pluperfect). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

か�"か�"りょう (past perfect tense), � いか�" (past perfect tense, pluperfect). (various references)

Pig Latin

astpay erfectpay

Portuguese

passado (ago, bygone, decrepit, departed, done, former, last, olden, overpast, passed, past, stale, up, worn out). (various references)

Romanian

mai-mult-ca-perfect. (various references)

Spanish

pluscuamperfecto (pluperfect). (various references)

Swedish

pluskvamperfektum (pluperfect, the past perfect). (various references)

Turkish

dili geçmiş zamanın hikâyesi. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: perfectas, praefects.

-3 letters: peartest, pectates, percepts, perfecta, perfects, praefect, precepts, prefaces, prefects, prepaste, pretapes, pretaste, spectate.

-4 letters: afreets, cappers, carpets, casette, cerates, creates, ecartes, escaper, estreat, feaster, featest, fetters, frappes, patters, pectase, pectate, percept, perfect, pertest, petters, preacts, precast, precept, preface, prefect, pretape, pretest, rappees, recepts, refaces, refects, repeats, respace, respect, restate, retapes, retaste, scatter, scepter, sceptre, septate, spatter, specter, spectra, spectre, stepper, tappers, tappets, tapster, tercets.

-5 letters: afreet, afters, aptest, aretes, aspect, capers, capper, carets, carpet, cartes, caster, caters, cerate, certes, crafts, crapes, crates, crease, create, creeps, crepes, easter, eaters, ecarte, epacts, erects, escape, escarp, estate, etapes, facers, facete, facets, faeces, farces, faster, fatter, feater, fester, fetter, frappe, freest, pacers, papers, parsec, paster, paters, pattee, patter, peaces, peseta, pester, peters, petter, prates, preact, preset, rappee, reacts, recaps, recast, recept, reface, refect, repast, repeat, reseat, resect, retape, retest, sapper, scrape, seater, secpar, secret, septet, serape, setter, spacer, stacte, stater, steppe, strafe, street, tapers, tapper, tappet, taster, taters, teaser, terces, tercet, testae, tester, tetras, traces, tracts, trapes, treats.

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