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Tenses - Pluperfect

In this section - See how, to talk about an event before something else happened, you can use the pluperfect.

The pluperfect is formed with the imperfect of 'avoir' or 'être' and the past participle of the verb, e.g. 'J'étais allé(e)'.

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