pluperfect tense meaning

Definition of pluperfect tense

1. a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
   • `I had finished' is an example of the past perfect

   Synonyms: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect

   Type of: perfective

pluperfect tense in a sentence

• It's in the pluperfect tense.
• I had not remembered what the pluperfect tense was until I looked it up to write this sentence.