A tense used in some languages (such as French and Italian) in narrative, and in spoken language primarily when reading narrative or in storytelling, for completed actions in the past or in speaking of the dead. It is semantically the same as the simple past in many languages, including English.
A grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past.
Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
showing an action at a determined moment in the past.