Betekenis van the past perfect In het Nederlands

• 0 the grammatical form used for an action that had already finished when another action happened. It is made with "had" and a past participle:

  • "I had just cooked" is an example of the past perfect, and "I had just been cooking" is an example of the past perfect continuous.

• 1 a tense usually formed with "had" that is used to refer to the earlier of two different times in the past:

  • The sentence "She had broken her leg once before," is in the past perfect.