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Plusquamperfekt - grammatical tense to denote an action completed prior to a past point in time.

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Understanding "die waren gewesen ganz stolz, die hatten geblänkt und gespiegelt" in context

This is one of the "catalog use cases" of Plusquamperfekt (past perfect) in German, which is very rarely used in the contemporary language. Plusquamperfekt, as you rightly say, is used for actions (a …
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Enthält dieses Zitat aus dem Buch "Im Westen nichts Neues" ein angedeutendes Beispiel ohne "...

Es gibt die einfache Regel, dass nach Modalverben und einer überschaubaren Liste von anderen Verben: helfen, hören, sehen, lassen, gehen, kommen, lernen, lehren, bleiben, fühlen, spüren, haben der Inf …
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