I’m sure we all remember such riveting posts as “Perfect Perfekt” and “Imperative.”  How could you not really? Everyone loves grammar.

Because we all remember the imperative and the perfect form though, it’s time to move on to pluskvamperfekt, or, as it is known in English, pluperfect or past perfect.  This form is used, not surprisingly, to describe something in the past tense using the perfect form.  You’ll want to use pluskvamperfekt in Swedish the same way you use the past perfect in English.  For example: He had already read “Perfect Perfekt.” Or: Han hade redan läst “Perfect Perfekt.”

In Swedish, we do something similar.  First of course, we have to get that supinum form.  Remember (from the post on the perfect), we have our verbs ending in –a.  Here we just add a –t.

For example:
Sluta ————–> Slutat
Krama ————–> Kramat
Stanna ————–> Stannat

We have our exceptions (there are many more than those listed below):
Få ————–> Fått
Se ————–> Sett
Var ————–> Varit
Gör ————–> Gjort

And we have our strong verbs, just like in English.  Again, there are many more than those listed below:
Ta ————–> Tagit
Spring ————–> Sprungit
Dö ————–> Dött
Sov ————–> Sovit
Sit ————–> Suttit
Skriv ————–> Skrivit

Now comes the easy part.  Just add hade.  Hade + Supinum = Pluskvamperfekt.  Hade is of course the past tense form of har.  So everything comes full circle.  With the perfect tense, we have Har + Supine = Perfect.  Pluskvamperfekt, the past tense form of the perfect then uses the past tense form of Har to give us Hade + Supinum = Pluskvamperfekt.  No problem right?

And now, a few sentences to get you all started:
Jag hade skrivit.
Han hade slutat.
Vi hade redan fått mat.
De hade redan gjort det.

Good luck!