The pluperfect tense (from Latin plus quam perfectum more than perfect), also called past perfect in English,'s a perfect tense that exists in most Indo-European languages, used to refer to an event that's been completed before another past action. In the sentence "The blind man, who knew that he'd risen, motioned him to sit down again" (from Charles Dickens, ), "he'd risen"'s an example of the pluperfect tense. It refers to an event (someone rises from his seat), which takes place before anoth… (More on Pluperfect)