In grammar, a past tense form that refers to events occurring before another past event.
From Latin 'ante' (before) + 'praeteritum' (past tense, from 'praeterire' meaning to go past). This grammatical term describes the temporal relationship between two past occurrences.
This is the pluperfect tense concept in Latin—like saying 'I had eaten before you arrived'—and it's absolutely essential for telling complex stories where you need past events that happened even more in the past.
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