"past perfect" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} past perfect (uncountable)
  1. A tense which describes actions that occurred before another action or event in the past; the pluperfect or the past anterior tense. Wikipedia link: past perfect Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Tenses Derived forms: past perfect continuous Translations (tense): førdatid [common-gender] (Danish), táliðin tíð [feminine] (Faroese), pluskvamperfekti (Finnish), þáliðin tíð [feminine] (Icelandic), trapassato remoto [masculine] (Italian), പൂർണ്ണഭൂതകാലം (pūṟṇṇabhūtakālaṁ) (Malayalam), گذشته ی بعید (gozashteye ba'id) (Persian), czas zaprzeszły (Polish), pretérito mais-que-perfeito [masculine] (Portuguese)

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