past anterior
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past anterior
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A compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, in function a pluperfect, and in form composed of the conjunction of the simple past tense of an auxiliary verb (avoir, être) with the past participle. Example: Après que la femme et l'homme l'eurent remercié = After the woman and the man had thanked him
Similar: past perfect
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noun a compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, and Italian
| Español | pretérito anterior |
|---|---|
| Português | passado anterior |
| Français | passé antérieur |
| Italiano | trapassato remoto |
| Русский | прошедшее отдалённое prošedšeje otdaljónnoje |
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