Grammatical Meanings of Plusquamperfect Tense and its Contextual Analysis
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The article examines the polysemy of plusquamperfekt in German. Plusquamperfekt is used to express the long past tense, and also has the property of relative usage. The interaction of two or more tenses in the same context is called the relative tenses of verbs. In this case, the connection between two or more actions is not focused on the moment of speech, but enters into a mutual connection. Linguists' theories about polysemy plusquamperfekt are substantiated and contextually analyzed using examples from German works of art.
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the absolute and relative use of tense forms, the deictic center, the context, the point of speech, action, explicit and implicit expression