{"id":2809,"date":"2015-02-02T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scuolaromit.it\/articoli\/?p=264"},"modified":"2021-05-03T12:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T10:06:53","slug":"past-perfect-subjunctive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scuolaromit.com\/en\/past-perfect-subjunctive\/","title":{"rendered":"The past perfect and the past perfect subjunctive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Italian language is a beautiful<\/a> and musical language (are we being too partial?), but it is certainly not among the simplest in terms of grammar and use of tenses. We ourselves, Italian native speakers, are at times confused regarding the correct use of tenses, so that the difficulties encountered by foreigners are obvious and comprehensible. Although we are already in 2015, we always throw an eye to the past and, recounting it, we cannot forget the correct use of tenses such as the trapassato prossimo<\/strong> (past perfect), trapassato remoto<\/strong> (past perfect) and the congiuntivo trapassato<\/strong> (past perfect subjunctive). You have no idea what they are and how to use them in a sentence? Let’s make some clarity.<\/p>\n

The trapassato prossimo is also called \u201cpiuccheperfetto\u201d<\/strong> (pluperfect) and is a verbal form used to indicate the completeness or the occurrence back in time of an action or event with respect to a time in the past. It is one of the compound tenses of the indicative<\/em> and is conjugated combining forms of the imperfect indicative of the auxiliary verbs to be or to have with the past participle of the verb in question, for example: avevo parlato<\/em>, avevo scritto<\/em>, eravamo stati<\/em>, ero andato<\/em>, erano partiti<\/em> (I had spoke, I had written, we had been, I had gone, they had gone). <\/p>\n

The main purpose is to indicate the prior occurrence of an action in respect to one that has already occurred<\/strong>. A few examples? <\/p>\n