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.
英語の過去完了形は、過去のある時点より前の出来事を表します。
The English past perfect tense expresses an event that happened before a certain point in the past.
日本語の過
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.