Pluperfect

It’s so perfect they had to make more of it.

olim, nauta florem magicum quaesivit.

postquam nauta florem magicum diu quaesiverat, ad aedificium advenit.

postquam aedificio appropinquaverat, nauta vocavit.

Heus! Anybody home?

postquam nauta vocaverat, nemo respondit. ergo, nauta aedificium intravit.

postquam nauta aedificium intraverat, florem magicum conspexit.

postquam nauta florem magicum conspexerat, florem cepit.

postquam florem ceperat, flos nautam consumpsit. et victimam aliam expectabat.

Pluperfect

• “plus” + “perfectus” = “pluperfect”• translates “had ______ed” or

“had been ______ing.”

Pluperfect

• 3rd Principal Part of the Verb + form of “erat”

• amo, amare, amavi– amaveramus = “we had loved”– amaverat=“he had loved”

Singular Plural

1st Person eram eramus

2nd Person eras eratis

3rd Person erat erant