Building the past perfect in Croatian

📘 If you really love reading Croatian novels, you will encounter the Croatian past perfect.
Today this verb form is mostly vanished from spoken language and only found in literature.
So, you don't have to be actively able to build the tense – it's enough to recognise it when you read it in a text.

If you want to look up the corresponding chapters, please visit the chapter on the past tense form of “biti” and the rules and explanations on building the past participle of Croatian verbs.

💡 For example:
ja sam bio išao (m) / ja sam bila išla (f) – I had gone