Pluperfect Tense in Italian: Trapassato Prossimo

What does pluperfect tense mean? It means more past than the past. How can something be more past than the past? Well, watch this and find out!
Script by Patrizia Farina, Professor of Italian at Western Connecticut State University and Purchase College.
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[@shawndurbs]

Thanks professor David. I’ve been a bit stuck on this. This video has helped. I’ll keep rewatching it until it sinks in. Love your videos.

[@alanbricker8420]

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[@gingerkwan]

Grazie mille Prof Dave! This is the first time coming across your video, it was very well explained, I've subscribed for more!

[@dianisjmz]

Awesome video, one qq though in the last example wouldnt it be avevano mangiato? Given that avere does not go with gender or nber of people?

[@patriciahoumdi1178]

Check video at 1:56. The verb is preceded by a direct object pronoun. Vero?

[@ivettehernandez_]

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[@markbardett4557]

I enjoy your videos. Quick question, is there any particular pattern to whether you use the imperfect of essere or avere in these sentences?

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[@klid662]

prof, in last comprehensive why still avere not essere?

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[@PITU-f7f]

if I said " quando sono arrivato al cinema il film AVEVA già cominciato" will cause ripples or people will understand?

[@lorellacurione2110]

Il film ERA già cominciato Change the auxiliare verb from "avere" to "essere "

[@alanbricker8420]

@@lorellacurione2110 Yes. I know - but why? I looked at a list of verbs that require essere. "Cominciare" wasn't on the list. Is it an idiomatic / colloquial kind of thing?

[@antonioscendrategattico2302]

It's because it's used intransitively. The movie had begun, but I had begun doing something.

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[@majharulislam1595]

Grazie mille per questo video

[@alisa5731]

Can trapassato prossimo be used to talk about smth u have read like a text?

[@bigploppa154]

depends. trapassato prossimo like prof dave says means beyond the past. so you use it to talk about something in the past that happened before something else. for example “when i woke up my family had already ate breakfast” trapassato prossimo would be used on the action of eating breakfast since it is the past that happened before the past

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Grazie.