"No sabemos exactamente cuando ocurrió."
Translation:We do not know exactly when it occurred.
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Ugh, I put "didn't know" instead of don't know, forgetting that the past tense of saber is irregular, i.e: supimos.
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"Lo" is a direct-object pronoun, i.e. the receiver of the action. Because the thing is question is doing the occurring, you would need a subject pronoun; however, the subject pronoun for inanimate objects is often omitted in Spanish, leading to the phrase as it is written.
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so basically "cuando lo ocurrió" is correct but colloquially 'lo' would be omitted?
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"Cuando lo ocurrió" isn't correct, because "lo" can't be "it" as the subject of a verb. In my non-native speaker opinion, either "cuando esto ocurrió" or "cuando eso ocurrió" (when this or that happened) would be correct, and either could be shortened to "cuando ocurrió."
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I'm native spaker and the alternative ways to say this sentence are:
No sabemos exactamente cuando ocurrió eso
No sabemos exactamente cuando ocurrió esto
generally you use "esto" when the action just happen, and "eso" when the action has happened a time ago.
sorry for my english.
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Shouldn't it be "cuándo", since this is an indirect question? I am having trouble working out when to use the accents...
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Is it normal in el mundo hispanohablante to combine the end and start of adjacent words with the same syllables, such as "cuando occurio" ?
