The Pluperfect or Secondary Perfect, largely used in late Cornish as a Conditional.
The passive of this tense is formed by the pluperfect of bos, to be, followed by the past participle.
There is also a possible pluperfect te ny vea, and nyn gyfye, found in the second and third persons singular.
The rest as the pluperfect of gwîl, or of menny, to will, with the infinitive.
In this sentence qwressa is for gwressa (third person singular of the conditional or pluperfect of the auxiliary gwîl, to do), with the initial in its fourth state after mar.
I have gained two other pounds), but even the pluperfect often has the sense of a simple preterite.
The perfect and the pluperfect subjunctive active are inflected as follows: CONJ.
The passive of the pluperfect subjunctive is formed by combining the perfect passive participle with «essem», the imperfect subjunctive of «sum».
The pluperfect participle refers to something which happened a long time ago, and is used to form the past tense of narration.
The corresponding tenses are formed by adding pronominal suffixes to the weak, the strong, or the pluperfect participle.
Tenses corresponding to the English perfect and pluperfect are formed by conjugating the auxiliary verb, adding the appropriate suffixes, with the compound past participle.
The pluperfect tense; also, a verb in the pluperfect tense.
In conjugation Tuscan has lost that tense which for the sake of brevity we shall continue to call the pluperfect indicative; though it still survives outside of Italy and in other dialectal types of Italy itself (C.
Passing now to a cursory mention of purely morphological phenomena, we begin with that form which is referred to the Latin pluperfect (see A.
There is also a very common use of the pluperfect for the imperfect, which seems a mark of this plebeius sermo (Nipperdey, Quaest.
The pluperfect is formed by changing the last a of the preterit to e and adding the verb gozaru in the present and gozatta in the preterit; e.
The preterit imperfect and pluperfect are made up of the present, preterit, and preterit participle together with the substantive verb, as will be seen below in the conjugations.
The same meaning is obtained by removing the verbs gozaru or aru from the pluperfect indicative and replacing it with the particle mo; e.
The pluperfect is formed by changing the final a of the preterit to e and adding the verb gozaru in the present and gozatta in the past, in the same way as we have described for the first conjugation; e.
The pluperfect is formed by changing the final a of the preterit to e and adding the verb gozaru or gozatta; e.
Sometimes the preterit infinitive is replaced by the pluperfect with gozaru or aru removed; e.
The perfect and the pluperfect of the subjunctive are formed from these same tenses in the indicative with the addition of the particle reba; e.
The pluperfect is formed by placing nari after the present tense; e.
Had' may be indicative; just as we sometimes find pluperfect indicative for pluperfect subjunctive in the same circumstances in Latin.
In Latin, the pluperfect indicative is occasionally used; which is explained as a more vivid form.
The Pluperfect tense is that which expresses what had taken place, at some past time mentioned: as, "I had seen him, when I met you.
Six times fifteen are ninety; and so many are the several phrases which now compose Murray's pluperfect tense of the subjunctive mood of the verb to strow--a tense which most grammarians very properly reject as needless!
The pluperfect tense expresses an action or event that passed prior or before some other period of time specified in the sentence.
Murray says, "The Pluperfect Tense represents a thing not only as past, but also as prior to some other point of time specified in the sentence: as, I had finished my letter before he arrived.
The form of the indicative pluperfectis sometimes used in lieu of the potential pluperfect; as, "If all the world could have seen it, the wo had been universal.
Kua is often prefixed to denote an action which is to take place, or has taken place previous to something else--in which latter use it will sometimes correspond to the pluperfect of English; e.
The imperfect andpluperfect alone have besides this a loosely attached particle.
For the imperfect and pluperfect the speaker can choose among a number of particles, all of which indicate past time.
Defn: The pluperfect tense; also, a verb in the pluperfect tense.
On one occasion Knight got out of temper with my stupidity or dulness in not comprehending something about 'a preter-pluperfect tense,' or some mystery of that sort.
Kritzius thinks that the pluperfect was referred by Sallust, not to Caesar's speech, but to the decree of the senate which was finally made; but this is surely a less satisfactory method of settling the matter.
There would be no doubt on this point, were it not for the pluperfect tense, decreverat.
Write sentences in which the verb teach is used in the present progressive, past progressive, future progressive, perfect progressive, pluperfect progressive, and future perfect progressive tenses of the active voice.
In a +condition contrary to fact+, the if-clause takes the past subjunctive when the condition refers to present time, the pluperfect subjunctive when it refers to past time.
The pluperfect (or past perfect) tense denotes that the action was completed at some point in past time.
Preterite is in some ways a better name for the tense than past, since both the perfect and the pluperfect tenses also refer to past time.
In indirect discourse, after the past or the pluperfect tense, the present tense of the direct discourse becomes past, and the perfect becomes pluperfect.
Turn the verbs in these sentences into the pluperfect tense; into the future perfect tense.
The indicative imperfect occurs four times in Livy and once in late Latin, the pluperfect once in old Latin and once in Cicero.
A pluperfect #sancierat# is quoted from Pomponius Secundus (823).
The pluperfect of such verbs is represented by the English imperfect, and the future perfect by the English future.
The imperfect orpluperfect subjunctive is sometimes used in general past suppositions (1730).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pluperfect" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: future; imperfect; past; perfect; present; tense
