Definition:
A compound French verb tense and the literary equivalent of the pluperfect.
Formation: Simple past auxiliary verb + past participle
Examples:
J'eus déjà mangé quand il arriva.
I had already eaten when he arrived.
Il fut venu à Paris avant le début de la guerre.
He had come to Paris before the beginning of the war.
Misspellings: passe anterieur, anteriour, anterier
Related lessons: Past anterior - Compound tenses - Literary yenses - Verb timeline
Related terms: pluperfect - auxiliary verb - literary tense - past participle - compound tense
Formation: Simple past auxiliary verb + past participle
Examples:
J'eus déjà mangé quand il arriva.
I had already eaten when he arrived.
Il fut venu à Paris avant le début de la guerre.
He had come to Paris before the beginning of the war.
Misspellings: passe anterieur, anteriour, anterier
Related lessons: Past anterior - Compound tenses - Literary yenses - Verb timeline
Related terms: pluperfect - auxiliary verb - literary tense - past participle - compound tense
