| 15.5.1 Formation of past perfect / Plusquamperfekt |
The past perfect is formed according to the formula:
conjugated modal verb in imperfect
+ perfect participle
| imperfect of to have | + perfect participle | |
| I had you had he, she, it had we had you had they had |
+ | eaten read bought written seen gone |
The choice of the modal verb is exactly the same like
with the present perfect - transitive verbs (those ones
which have a direct object) use the verb haben, intransitive
(the ones without direct objects) use the verb sein.
And the perfect participle is the same as described
before.
| imperfect of verb haben | + perfect participle | |||||
| ich hatte du hattest er/sie/es hatte wir hatten ihr hattet sie hatten |
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| Examples | |
| Ich hatte einen Brief
geschrieben. = I had written a letter. |
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| Wir hatten Brot gekauft. = We had bought some bread. |
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| Ihr hattet einen Mann
gesehen. = You had seen a man. |
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| Imperfekt del verb sein | + participio perfecto | |||||
| ich war du warst er/sie/es war wir waren ihr wart sie waren |
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| Examples | |
| Ich war nach
Amerika geflogen. = I had gone to America. |
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| Wir waren nach Hause gelaufen. = We had gone home. |
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| Das
Auto war kaputt gegangen und deshalb nahmen
wir den Zug. = The car had broken down and therefore we went by train. |
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