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• (grammar): plpf. (abbreviation)

語源

Shortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /pluːˈpɜː.fɪkt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /pluˈpɝ.fɪkt/

形容詞

pluperfect (comparative more pluperfect, superlative most pluperfect)

1. More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
2. (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
3. (graph theory) Being or relating to a certain type of graph that complies with a theorem ("pluperfect graph theorem") discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970, satisfying even more constraints than a perfect graph.
4. (mathematics) Synonym of multiperfect.
5. (informal) Used as an intensifier in various interjections.

   What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!

   • 1952, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Wildlife in North Carolina - Volumes 16-19‎:

     The drought has raised pluperfect heck with fishing more ways than one.

使用する際の注意点

• In many languages, this tense is formed using a participle and an auxiliary verb in a past tense.

派生語

関連する語

• pluperfection

名詞

pluperfect (plural pluperfects)

1. The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
2. A verb in this tense.

同意語

• plusquamperfect, preterpluperfect