pluperfect Betydning & definition

Eksempler på pluperfect

• Meanwhile, the pluperfect subjunctive continued in its same usage with the morphology cantasses.

• Two other compound forms are the pluperfect and the future perfect.

• This is certainly possible, since for some speakers, background and foreground events are expressed consistently with imperfective and pluperfect forms as examples (45)-(50) show.

• They also found pluperfect forms associated with foreground events.

• In some of the cases cited from the affidavits (b and c above, for example), the use of the pluperfect is not necessarily nonstandard.

• As pointed out by an anonymous reviewer, in this case the pluperfect has a perfective inter pretation.

• These forms are the simple past tense (canté), the past subjunctive (cantara), and the pluperfect (había cantado).

• Each narrative was coded for use of a past-tense form in past-time contexts, which included simple past, past progressive, and, more rarely, pluperfect.