The pluperfect is used to speak about what someone had done:
Je me suis rendu conte que j'avais oublié mon cles
I realised that I had forgotten my keys.
Mon ami m'a dit que j'avais gagné la loterie
My friend told me that I had won the lottery
Je ne savais pas que ma femme avait déjà réglé le compte
I didn't know that my wife had already paid the bill
The pluperfect is formed in the same way as the perfect tense, except that the imperfect of the auxiliary verb is used instead of the present. Here are the forms of the pluperfect of Parler and Aller
| Aller | To go | Parler | To speak | |
| J'étais allé | I had gone | J 'avais parlé | I had spoken | |
| Tu étais allé | You had gone | Tu avais parlé | You had spoken | |
| Il était allé | He had gone | Il avait parlé | He had spoken | |
| Nous étions allés | We had gone | Nous avions parlé | We had spoken | |
| Vous étiez allé | You had gone | Vous aviez parlé | You had spoken | |
| Ils étaient allés | They had gone | Ils avaient parlé | They had spoken |
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