I find it easier to do that if I understand why a tense is called what it’s called, so let’s look at the Wikipedia page on the plus-que-parfait: If you want to talk about any of the compound tenses with your French teacher, you’re going to need to be able to remember their names. It’s what we call a compound tense (see this post for an introduction to compound tenses and what makes them interesting). ![]() ![]() (More on vomiting below.) In English, we call it the past perfect. This is the French tense (technically, it’s an aspect, but I’ll try to leave the technical stuff out of this) that corresponds to things like I had vomited in English. ![]() Picture source:, who put it together from images on the excellent Tex’s French Grammar web site, at. The passé composé, imparfait, and plus-que-parfait contrasted.
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