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Noun: past perfect
  1. A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
    "'I had finished' is an example of the past perfect";
    - past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tense

Derived forms: past perfects

Type of: perfect, perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense

Encyclopedia: Past perfect