Exercise 13.4
Translate the sentences below into German, using the past perfect tense.1 We hadn’t seen each other for 10 years.
2 Before that I had lived in Hamburg.
3 Before that he had been a doctor.
4 She couldn’t come because she had missed the train.
5 I didn’t know that you had been to Austria. (Use the duform.)
6 He wanted to read the book after he had seen the film.
7 They spoke better Spanish after they had lived in Madrid.
8 After she had washed the car she drove into town.Checklist ✓1 When is the past perfect tense used?2 How do you form the past perfect?3 Which conjunction often introduces a subordinate clause
in the past perfect tense?4 How can the past perfect tense often be substituted?Unit 13: The past perfect tense 101