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