(That dress? She had bought it when she was in Paris. Cette robe? Elle l'avait achetée quand elle était à Paris.(Here are the books I had written a long time ago.) Voici les livres que j'avais écrits il y a longtemps.Remember that the past participle must agree in number and gender with a preceding direct‐object noun or pronoun: (She had prepared herself before giving her presentation.) Elle s'était préparée avant de donner sa présentation.(He walked with difficulty because he had fallen.) Pluperfect (plus-que-parfait), from French Language Tools Plus-que-parfait (jeu en quatre. Il marchait avec peine parce qu'il était tombé. Le Franais et la grammaire - une conjugaison complique.(I had a stomachache because I had eaten too much.) J'avais mal à l'estomac parce que j'avais trop mangé.Its English equivalent is “had” + past participle: The plus‐que‐parfait is the compound form of the imperfect and is formed by using the imperfect of the appropriate helping verb ( avoir or être) + the past participle of the verb. The plus‐que‐parfait (the pluperfect) indicates that an action had taken place and had been completed before another past action took place. French II: Conditional Mood & Conditions.Using the Correct Form of the Past Tense.Infinitive in Interrogatives Exclamations.Infinitive Preceded by Adjectives and Nouns. French II: Special Uses of Certain Verbs.French II: Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions.Time and Using Advanced Time Expressions.False Friends: French Words in Disguise.
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