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- "She had not wanted it."
"She had not wanted it."
Translation:Lei non l'aveva voluto.
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I suspect that 'voluta' should not be considered wrong because, if the thing she had not wanted were feminine, the past participle would have to agree with the preceeding direct object. That would mean the 'voluta' as well as 'voluto' should be accepted. Am I confused?
1225
We don't know if "it" is of male or female gender so I think there are two possibilities.
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Lei non l'aveva voluto. (where l' stands for lo)
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Lei non l'aveva voluta. (where l' stands for la)
436
When do we need to include "it" in the sentence? In the last lesson it was omitted in "Ti era piaciuto".
1225
Ti = to you
era = he/she/it had
piaciuto = pleased
So in this case the "it" is hidden inside "era".
She had not wanted it.
She = Lei
had = aveva
not = non
wanted = voluto
it = lo
But in Italian word order this need to be "She not it had wanted" = Lei non lo aveva voluto and then "lo+aveva" will be elided to *l'aveva.
419
I still don't understand why we use trapassato in sentences where only one thing happens. Help
1225
I guess it is hard to come up with sentences for us to practise on, - but an imaginary continuation or next sentence could perhaps help.
She had not wanted it. But then, after she had won on the lottery, everything changed.
419
Ok, thank you I was afraid that there was some principle that I don't understand. Have a lingot
602
In this case "avevo" would indicate " I had" rather than "she had" "aveva". Also by the omission of l' in front aveva there is nothing to say what she hadn't wanted. Hope this helps
600
"Lei non lo volle" was how the speech recognition misheard my attempt. It was marked correct, but I have no idea what form it is. I looked it up in my Italian verb book where I found it is "past absolute". What form is this and how is it used?
432
I don't know if you still care after 5 months but lo = it, questio = this. there's a difference.
432
I propose to all students to look up the lesson on past perfect on google and study it on a different web. all the questions that people asked here would be clear from the first paragraphs = 5 minutes of study.