The pluperfect (shortening of plusquamperfect), usually called past perfect in English, characterizes certain verb forms and grammatical tenses involving...

In number theory, a narcissistic number (also known as a pluperfect digital invariant (PPDI), an Armstrong number (after Michael F. Armstrong) or a plus...

as perfectum tenses), consisting of the perfect, future perfect, and pluperfect. To these six main tenses can be added various periphrastic or compound...

mathematics, a multiply perfect number (also called multiperfect number or pluperfect number) is a generalization of a perfect number. For a given natural number...

forms for tenses, aspects, and/or moods—present, preterite, imperfect, pluperfect, future, and conditional. Three (or four) moods—indicative, subjunctive...

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...

imperfect, future, aorist (the equivalent of past simple), perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect. (The last two, especially the future perfect, are...

imperfect, and pluperfect) is matched by a corresponding series of perfect constructions (perfect simple, perfect continuous, and perfect pluperfect — the last...

progressive or past perfect continuous (also known as the pluperfect progressive or pluperfect continuous) combines perfect progressive aspect with past...

seldom used pluperfect subjunctive and the pluperfect indicative, which is used in this situation. For example, Si on l'avait su (pluperfect indicative)...

specified time in the past, and therefore has similar function to the pluperfect found in some languages. The past perfect progressive (sometimes referred...

derives from the pluperfect subjunctive of Vulgar Latin and the -ra from the pluperfect indicative, combining to overtake the previous pluperfect subjunctive...

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...

preterite) and four tenses constructed with auxiliary verbs (perfect, pluperfect, future and future perfect). The distinction between grammatical aspects...

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...

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...

(passé composé and passé simple), the past imperfective (imparfait), the pluperfect (plus-que-parfait), the simple future (futur simple), the future perfect...

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...

sim). 3. The imperfect, perfect, pluperfect and future perfect indicative are turned into the perfect or pluperfect subjunctive after primary and secondary...

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...

with cantase, cantases, cantase, etc. Nevertheless, a few rare uses as a pluperfect subsist. Fell into disuse in modern Portuguese, now found only in literary...

distinguish it from most other Romance languages, such as a synthetic pluperfect, a future subjunctive tense, the inflected infinitive, and a present perfect...

for verbs: past, present, future, exact future, aorist, imperfect, and pluperfect; and three moods: indicative, imperative, and conditional. However, the...

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...

conjugations, including: A present tense, a preterite, an imperfect, a pluperfect and a future tense in the indicative mood, for statements of fact. An...

conditional", derived from the Latin pluperfect indicative tense. The second conditional is cognate with the literary pluperfect in Portuguese, the -ra imperfect...

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...

distinguishable: neutral, perfect and pluperfect. The neutral aspect comprises the three simple tenses and the future tense. The pluperfect is manifest in tenses that...

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...

the past tenses, the subordinate verb is usually in the imperfect or pluperfect subjunctive (historic sequence). For example, when the subordinate verb...