"Then what in the pluperfect hell are you telling me?"

The ways in which some languages form the pluperfect are described below.

However, the pluperfect is losing ground to the compound forms.

Past perfect is a verb form with similar meaning to the pluperfect.

Of course he is not the pluperfect hero he was in 1913.

But I'm a little unsure about the pluperfect and gerunds.

Instead, the pluperfect, like the preterite, is expressed using the perfect.

The pluperfect I tense expresses a process of action that has happened in the (distant) past.

This tense is often replaced by either the preterit or the pluperfect, with the same meaning.

Using the past tense of the helping verb gives the pluperfect form that is used in conversation.

The pluperfect indicative can also be expressed with an equivalent periphrasis.

Here, "had thought" and "had reached" are examples of the pluperfect.

The pluperfect indicative is used to indicate an action that occurred before some other future action.

There are two structures of the pluperfect II tense.

The pluperfect II tense expresses the result of an action that has been completed, but no one had seen.

The pluperfect is needed to make it clear that the first event (the thinking and the supposed reaching) is placed even earlier in the past.

Modern Greek uses auxiliaries to form the pluperfect; examples are given in the table at the end of this article.

A more formal way of expressing the pluperfect uses the verb "haver".

We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.

The second of these, equivalent to the pluperfect, is not used in the modern language, being considered archaic and/or grammatically incorrect.

The perfect in -m followed by näbbär forms the pluperfect.

Time was, much of teenage America would have agreed: lifeguarding was the pluperfect summer billet.

As with English, in Latin, the pluperfect indicative is used to assert an action that was completed before another (perfect).

Here, the pluperfect indicative is used.

Chief among them is Bo Derek as the pluperfect sun-kissed California beauty.