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Rh We repeat once more, in order to impress upon the student’s mind that we very rarely make use of this pluperfect, that we generally employ the perfect—eŭ am arat, eŭ am vĕḍut, eŭ am creḍut, etc.—to express the past time (as in English the imperfect), and that the perfect and pluperfect simple are used more in narration.