Portuguese/Contents/Pluperfect tense regular verbs

The pluperfect tense is used to show temporal relationships in the past. It shows that one event happened before another, as in "I had already eaten dinner before you called". All regular verbs follow the one pattern, except for an accent in the "we" and "you" (plural) forms of the verbs, which change depending on whether the verb is "-ar", "-er" or "-ir".

The regular pluperfect tense is formed as follows:

I had spoken	Eu falar	a
You had spoken	Tu falar	as
He had spoken (also ela, você)	Ele falar	a
We had spoken	Nós falár	amos	BUT	Nós comêramos	Nós partíramos
You (p) had spoken	Vós falár	eis	BUT	Vós comêreis	Vós partíreis
They were speaking (also elas, vocês)	Eles falar	amos

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