noun
a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
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`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect
• Syn: ↑past perfect tense, ↑pluperfect, ↑pluperfect tense
• Hypernyms: ↑perfective, ↑perfective tense, ↑perfect, ↑perfect tense
Useful english dictionary. 2012.