past anterior

Meaning

Noun

  • 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, ĂȘtre) with the past participle.

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