past anterior

Noun

 * 1)  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

 * past perfect

Translations

 * Aragonese: pasau anterior
 * Catalan: passat anterior, pretèrit anterior
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: passado anterior
 * Russian: прошедшее отдалённое
 * Spanish: