| | :: Apparently past perfect and pluperfect are different things... Can I change "perfect" to "past perfect"? It was confusing me earlier. — [[User:Jeraphine Gryphon|Jeraphine Gryphon]] 16:09, 27 December 2011 (UTC) | | :: Apparently past perfect and pluperfect are different things... Can I change "perfect" to "past perfect"? It was confusing me earlier. — [[User:Jeraphine Gryphon|Jeraphine Gryphon]] 16:09, 27 December 2011 (UTC) |
| | ::: They are the same things... but it's a bit confusing because 'perfect' seems like something that happens in the past. But what perfect really refers to is something that is complete. And if it's complete, then obviously something must have happened in the past. But it can be complete at different times... it may be complete now (present perfect) or in the past (past perfect, pluperfect). For example, you can say 'I do', 'I did', which is present and past imperfect (you don't know if it's finished). But you can also say 'I have done', 'I had done', that is present and past perfect (you know that it's finished). —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 16:13, 27 December 2011 (UTC) | | ::: They are the same things... but it's a bit confusing because 'perfect' seems like something that happens in the past. But what perfect really refers to is something that is complete. And if it's complete, then obviously something must have happened in the past. But it can be complete at different times... it may be complete now (present perfect) or in the past (past perfect, pluperfect). For example, you can say 'I do', 'I did', which is present and past imperfect (you don't know if it's finished). But you can also say 'I have done', 'I had done', that is present and past perfect (you know that it's finished). —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 16:13, 27 December 2011 (UTC) |
| | + | In Estonian we have two tenses: present and past. Past has three forms: (1) past (''lihtminevik'', labelled "past" in the tables), (2) past perfect (''täisminevik'', labelled "perfect" in the tables), and (3) pluperfect (''enneminevik'', labelled "pluperfect" in the tables). — [[User:Jeraphine Gryphon|Jeraphine Gryphon]] 16:19, 27 December 2011 (UTC) |
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