past anterior en · NOUN
Meanings
- (uncountable) 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
Synonyms
Translations (9)
fr passé antérieur (a compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, and Italian) · an pasau anterior (a compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, and Italian) · pt passado anterior (a compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, and Italian) · it trapassato remoto (a compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, and Italian) · ca passat anterior (a compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, and Italian) · pl czas przeszły uprzedni (a compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, and Italian) · ca pretèrit anterior (a compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, and Italian) · es pretérito anterior (a compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, and Italian) · ru прошедшее отдалённое (a compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, and Italian)