past anterior in French
past anterior in French is passé antérieur.
past anterior in French
passé antérieur
(grammar) 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
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"past anterior" in French is passé antérieur.
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