• The pluperfect (shortening of plusquamperfect), usually called past perfect in English, characterizes certain verb forms and grammatical tenses involving...
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  • as perfectum tenses), consisting of the perfect, future perfect, and pluperfect. To these six main tenses can be added various periphrastic or compound...
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  • In number theory, a narcissistic number (also known as a pluperfect digital invariant (PPDI), an Armstrong number (after Michael F. Armstrong) or a plus...
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  • imperfect, future, aorist (the equivalent of past simple), perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect. (The last two, especially the future perfect, are...
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  • forms for tenses, aspects, and/or moods—present, preterite, imperfect, pluperfect, future, and conditional. Three (or four) moods—indicative, subjunctive...
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    mathematics, a multiply perfect number (also called multiperfect number or pluperfect number) is a generalization of a perfect number. For a given natural number...
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    aorist, imperfect, and pluperfect, but not to any of the other forms of the aorist (no other forms of the imperfect and pluperfect exist). The two kinds...
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    progressive or past perfect continuous (also known as the pluperfect progressive or pluperfect continuous) combines perfect progressive aspect with past...
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  • derives from the pluperfect subjunctive of Vulgar Latin and the -ra from the pluperfect indicative, combining to overtake the previous pluperfect subjunctive...
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  • imperfect, and pluperfect) is matched by a corresponding series of perfect constructions (perfect simple, perfect continuous, and perfect pluperfect — the last...
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    preterite) and four tenses constructed with auxiliary verbs (perfect, pluperfect, future and future perfect). The distinction between grammatical aspects...
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  • Matthew Reed, and Jann Wenner. The film was produced by Delphi III and Pluperfect and was released on June 7, 1985. It grossed $4.2 million during its opening...
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    classical Latin sum and eram are used as auxiliary verbs in the perfect and pluperfect passive, which are compound tenses. Medieval Latin might use fui and fueram...
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  • and "did something" (the preterite use). Other related forms are the pluperfect, denoting an event prior to a past time of reference, and the future perfect...
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  • interchangeable with amase, amases, amase, etc. Nevertheless, a few rare uses as a pluperfect subsist. Fell into disuse in modern Portuguese, now found only in literary...
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  • more, if you were in Rome" "past contrary-to-fact" [if pluperfect subjunctive then pluperfect subjunctive] sī Rōmae fuissem, tē vīdissem "if I had been...
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  • to ache, we can't bear it' In a past context, this becomes sī with the pluperfect indicative: sī quandō nostrī ferreīs manibus iniectīs nāvem religāverant...
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    (passé composé and passé simple), the past imperfective (imparfait), the pluperfect (plus-que-parfait), the simple future (futur simple), the future perfect...
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    negative): The imperfect is formed with what was originally a suffix -i: The pluperfect is paraphrastically formed with the verb bon, "to be", and the past participle...
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  • averterint! (Cicero) 'but may the gods avert this omen!' The imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive are used in wishes to represent an imagined or wished for...
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  • seldom used pluperfect subjunctive and the pluperfect indicative, which is used in this situation. For example, Si on l'avait su (pluperfect indicative)...
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    conjugations, including: A present tense, a preterite, an imperfect, a pluperfect and a future tense in the indicative mood, for statements of fact. An...
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    for verbs: past, present, future, exact future, aorist, imperfect, and pluperfect; and three moods: indicative, imperative, and conditional. However, the...
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    distinguishable: neutral, perfect and pluperfect. The neutral aspect comprises the three simple tenses and the future tense. The pluperfect is manifest in tenses that...
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  • the past tenses, the subordinate verb is usually in the imperfect or pluperfect subjunctive (historic sequence). For example, when the subordinate verb...
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    verbs are conjugated in four past forms—perfect, aorist, imperfect, and pluperfect—of which the last two have a very limited use (imperfect is still used...
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  • weather forecasts. But it may be used together with the perfective and pluperfect suffixes, or in a present tense context. If used with the perfective suffix...
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  • spoken form, ast is omitted, making خورده xorde 's/he has eaten". The pluperfect tense is formed by taking the stem of the perfect, e.g. خورده xorde, adding...
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  • [citation needed] Verbs conjugate for:[citation needed] 4 tenses: past, pluperfect, present, future; 2 voices: active, mediopassive; 3 persons: first, second...
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    aorist, and perfect/stative) merged into one and no new tenses (future, pluperfect, etc.) developing. There were three moods: indicative, subjunctive (developed...
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