Re: [tied] Re: Latin - English derivatives

At 3:03:52 PM on Thursday, July 3, 2003, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fortuna11111" <fortuna11111@...>
> wrote:

>> Richard, I hope you understand that most of the
>> terminology I get here is in German. The usual way a
>> German thinks, without being a linguist, is: 1. Präsens,
>> 2. Präteritum, 3. Perfekt (PPP) (referring to the German
>> verbs, of course). That's the usual way you do it in
>> school, but many people don't know even that, ahem.

> What's happened to the 'Plus Perfekt', or whatever they
> call the pluperfect tense?

'Plusquamperfekt', ne?

Brian