"Nous l'avons vendue jeudi dernier."
Translation:We sold it last Thursday.
April 1, 2018
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why is 'we have sold it last Thursday' wrong? I'm not a native english speaker, so perhaps this is a stupid question?
"We have sold" in present perfect suggests that the time span is unimportant or that the action still has effect at the present time.
"Last Thursday" gives a precise time for the action which is now finished.
The past simple is used when an action is one-time, past and complete: "We sold it last Thursday".
The present perfect would be used with no end-date for the action, "we have (already) sold it".