Le Plus-que-parfait: Mastering the Past-Before-The-Past

Introduction: The Pluperfect Power

You are describing a chain of events in the past.

• "I arrived at the station, but the train had already left."

In French, "the train left" is Passé Composé (). But "had left"—an action that occurred another past action—requires a special tense: (The Pluperfect).