The past perfect tense is often when we are relating two events which happened in the past. It helps to show which event heppened first.

අතීත කෘදන්ත භාවිතා කර අතීත සිදුවීම් දෙකකින් කුමන සිදුවීම ප්‍රථමයෙන් වූවාදැයි කිවිය හැක.

This tense is formed using two components: the verb HAVE (in the past tense), and the past participle form of a verb.

අතීත කෘදන්ත සැකසීමට Have යන සහයක ක්‍රියාපදයේ අතීත රූපය වන Had යන්නද ප්‍රධාන ක්‍රියාවේ කෘදන්ත රූපයද ගනු ලැබේ.

Subject	HAVE	Past Participle	Contraction
I	had	arrived. eaten.	I'd arrived. I'd eaten.
You	had	arrived. eaten.	You had arrived. You had eaten.
He	had	arrived. eaten.	He had arrived. He had eaten.
She	had	arrived. eaten.	She had arrived. She had eaten.
It	had	arrived. eaten.	It had arrived. It had eaten.
We	had	arrived. eaten.	We had arrived. We had eaten.
They	had	arrived. eaten.	They had arrived. They had eaten.

The past perfect is used to show you which of two events happened first.

Imagine that two things happened in the past:

අතීත සිදුවීම් දෙකක් සළකන්න

I went to see the movie.
මම චිත්‍රපටිය බැලුවෙමි.

We discussed the movie in class.
අපි පංතියේ චිත්‍රපටිය සාකචිචා කළෙමු.

මම චිත්‍රපටිය බලා පසුව එය පංතියේ සාකච්චා කළාද? නැතහොත් සාකච්චා කිරීමෙන් පසුව එය බැලුවාද යන්න නොපැහැදිලිය.

Here, we don't know which order the events happened in. Perhaps I went to see the movie after the discussion, or maybe I saw the movie before the discussion. There are many ways to make this sequence clear, and the past perfect is one of them. This is how we do it:

I went to see the movie. We had discussed it in class.

එය අතීත කෘදන්ත යොදා නැවත ලියූ විට චිත්‍රපටිය බැලීමට පෙර සාකච්චාව වූ බව හැඟේ.

Here, we KNOW that the discussion took place FIRST -- even though the sentence describing it comes afterwards. We discussed the movie, and THEN I went to see it.

This can be very useful when you are telling a story or relating a sequence of events. At any point in your story, you can jump BACK to a previous event, and your reader will not be confused, because the past perfect will make it clear that the event happened previously.

මේ ක්‍රමය අප කථාවක් කියන විට ප්‍රයෝජනවත් වන්නේ නොකියවුණු යමක් ඊට පෙර කියු යමක් හා සම්බන්ධ කිරීමට හා කථාවේ පෙර තැනක් සඳහන් කිරීමටය.

I wanted to live in a foreign country, so I applied for a job in Japan. Judy lived in Japan, so I called her to find out more about the culture and lifestyle there.

(Judy was probably still living in Japan when I called her.)
ජූඩි මා කථා කරන විට ජපානයේ ජීවත් වෙමින් සිටි බව හැඟේ.

I wanted to live in a foreign country, so I applied for a job in Japan. Judy had lived in Japan, so I called her to find out more about the culture and lifestyle there.

(Judy no longer lived in Japan -- she returned from there before I applied for the job.)
ජූඩි මා කථා කරන විට ජපානයේ තව දුරටත් ජපානයේ ජීවත් නොවී සිටි බව හැඟේ.

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