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"What did you do last weekend?"
Translation:你上个周末做了什么?
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If time can be placed at the beginning of the sentence this should be acceptable. But we have to write the way duolingo wants.
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"le" is used to indicate a completed action or a change in state. Does not necessarily mean past tense though it is often used to represent it.
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Right, perhaps without 了 could be right if something was done (in the last weekend, in this case) and it's still ongoing or not completed.
了 is pronounced as liao3 in phrases like 了解 and 了不起. In this sentence it should be pronounced le, though.
I've noticed before when tapping the single 了 tile, the male voice pronounces it as le, whereas the female voice pronounces it as liao3.
(This is obviously unrelated, but I like your 4341 day streak. :) Have a lingot for it!)
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Shouldn't "你上周末做了什么?" be accepted as well? I thought the measure word is optional, like "下周末".
Particles 了 le and 过 guò to indicate past action. I FINALLY found a resource that explained it. - https://www.digmandarin.com/all-video-lessons/grammar-summary-le-chinese and https://www.digmandarin.com/use-le-in-chinese.html
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Hmmmm. In the previous question the word order translated as 'last weekend' was incorrect, so I flipped it around to 'weekend last' in this question. Incorrect. Which is the correct word order, please?