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Word ordering in French confuses me so much... Could this sentence be "Nous l'avons vendue dernier jeudi"?
With the meaning of "last XX", "dernier" is always placed after the noun:
- lundi dernier, la semaine dernière, le mois dernier, l'an dernier.
With the meaning of "(on) the last XX", "dernier" is placed before the noun:
- le dernier lundi, la dernière semaine, le dernier mois, la dernière année.
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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".
Because "l'" is the direct object, placed before the verb, and it can represent a feminine noun.
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I made the same mistake, although in truth I was being a little bit cheeky with my answer
What if "she" was an animal...une jument (mare), une vache (cow) or une chatte (cat) etc.?
We would need that kind of context, which we have not, to accept "her" in the translation.
