चुकी थीं

had already (completed an action)

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phrase Rare #9,562

had already (completed an action) Used after a verb to show that an action was already complete by a past time. चुकी थीं agrees with a feminine plural subject.

HI: वे घर जा चुकी थीं।

EN: They had already gone home.

हाँ आया था, लेकिन तुम वहाँ से जा चुकी थीं।

Yes, I came, but you had already left.

— पीके (2014)

रविवार दोपहर के भोजन तक क्रिस की मौत की अफ़वाहें चारों ओर फैल चुकी थीं।

By Sunday lunchtime, rumors of Chris’s death had spread everywhere.

अब तो वहाँ पहले लगने वाली आधी नावें तूफान में डूब चुकी थीं।

By then, half the boats that used to be there had sunk in the storm.