"Os agentes não sabiam porque tinham usado isso."
Translation:The agents did not know why they had used it.
August 15, 2013
6 Comments
How to differentiate 'why' vs 'because' in a sentence like this then? just context?
September 2, 2018
Isn't "tinham usado" past perfect? I thought this meant "The agents didn't know why they had been using it"
July 15, 2014
Many times in English we don't distinguish between simple past and past continuous when it involves translating from the portuguese imperfect tense.
August 18, 2014
