amaveram

Amaveram is the first person singular pluperfect indicative active form of the Latin verb amare, meaning “to love.” It is typically translated as “I had loved” and, in some narrative contexts, “I used to love.” The pluperfect expresses an action completed before another past action or moment. It contrasts with the imperfect amābam, which means “I was loving” or “I used to love,” and with the future perfect.

The form is built from the perfect stem amav- plus the imperfect of esse, eram, yielding amaveram. The full set in the same tense and mood is amaveram, amaveras, amaverat, amaveramus, amaveratis, amaverant. This form belongs to the first conjugation (amare).

Usage in classical Latin includes indicating a completed past action, often in main clauses or in indirect speech after a past-tense verb. It can appear in narrative sequences to show a prior action, or in conditional or reported-speech clauses to establish sequence with subsequent events.

Example sentences: Amaveram libros antequam legi. “I had loved the books before I read them.” Dixit amaveram te, ut scires de meis sensibus. “He said that I had loved you, so you would know my feelings.”