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past per·fect

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tensenoun

    a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past

    "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"

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  1. past perfectnoun

    A tense which represents actions that occurred before other actions in the past; the pluperfect tense.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of past perfect in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of past perfect in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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