Language/Armenian/Grammar/The-Past-Perfect-Tense

The Past Perfect Tense in Armenian

The past perfect is used to express action which was completed before another action or time in the past. It is almost equivalent to the English past perfect tense.

1) Մեր հանդիպելուց առաջ ես արդեն վերջացրել էի իմ աշխատանքը: I had already finished my work before our meeting. 2) Երբ դու եկար, նա արդեն վաճառել էր իր մեքենան։ When you cam, she had already sold her car. The past perfect is formed by perfect participle and past tense forms of the auxiliary verbs

Consider broadening your understanding by checking out these related lessons: The Genitive Case, Cases of Nouns, This, That and the Other One & Conditional Mood.

Past Perfect

Examples

Here are examples:

Sources

https://slaviccenters.duke.edu/sites/slaviccenters.duke.edu/files/handbook_of_armenian.pdf

Other Lessons

• Conditional Mood
• The Instrumental Case
• Conditional Mood Future Conditional
• Indefinite Article
• The Genitive Case
• Personal Pronouns
• The Ablative Case
• Prepositions and Postpositions
• The Verb to Be