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The past perfect tense refers to a past event which occurred before another past event. It consists of the simple past form of the helping verb (haben or sein) and the past participle of the main verb.
| Sie hatten uns schon gesehen. Wir waren bis acht geblieben. |
They had seen us already. We had stayed until eight. |