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past perfect tense
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Noun past perfect tense has 1 sense
- past perfect tense(n = noun.linkdef) past perfect, pluperfect, pluperfect tense - a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect" is a kind of perfect, perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense
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