past perfect form; past perfect tense
A grammatical term referring to the past perfect form or tense, used in linguistic descriptions of Japanese and other languages.
The English past perfect tense expresses an event that happened before a certain point in the past.
Please explain the past perfect form in Japanese.
Refers to the present perfect form/tense, while 過去完了形 refers to the past perfect.
Refers to the future perfect form/tense, contrasting with the past perfect 過去完了形.
Compound of 過去 (past), 完了 (completion), and 形 (form). A straightforward calque from Western grammatical terminology.