laudaverat

Laudaverat is a Latin verb form: the third-person singular pluperfect indicative active of laudare, a regular first-conjugation verb meaning to praise. The form means “he had praised” (with the subject understood from context). It is formed from the perfect stem laudav- plus the pluperfect ending -erat, one of the set endings for the pluperfect (eram, eras, erat, eramus, eratis, erant).

Usage and function: The pluperfect expresses an action completed before a reference point in the past. It is common in narrative and in indirect speech to indicate anteriority relative to another past event. For example: “Laudaverat magistrum antequam discessit” translates as “He had praised the teacher before he left.”

Morphology and related forms: Laudaverat belongs to the regular paradigm of the first conjugation. Other persons in the pluperfect active are laudaveram (I had praised), laudaveras (you had praised), laudaverat (he/she/it had praised), laudaveramus, laudaveratis, and laudaverant. This tense contrasts with the present (laudat), imperfect (laudabat), and perfect (laudavit) in signaling different temporal relations of past events.

Notes: The pluperfect active is a synthetic tense; its formation relies on the perfect stem and the standard pluperfect endings. As with other Latin verbs, context determines its precise translation, often rendered as “had praised” in English.