pastplural
Pastplural is a term used in linguistic discussions to describe a verb form or construction that encodes both past tense and grammatical number (plural) simultaneously. In languages exhibiting tense-number fusion, a single inflection can indicate that an event occurred in the past and that the subject is plural, rather than requiring separate markers for tense and number. Pastplural realizations can be affixes attached to the verb root (prefix, suffix, or infix), clitics on a finite verb, or agreement through an auxiliary carrying a fused form.
In natural languages, tense and agreement are often expressed with distinct morphemes, so pastplural is relatively
Pastplural can also appear in constructed languages or in typological descriptions used to discuss possible morphologies,
See also: tense, aspect, mood, number, subject–verb agreement, morphological fusion, language typology.