Topic: Portuguese

"Quando eu cheguei lá ele já tinha ido."

Translation:When I arrived there he had already gone.

December 26, 2012

7 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/Michel_Wang

    Am i the only one hearing something weird in the audio?

    June 3, 2016
    https://www.duolingo.com/Danmoller
    Mod

      The woman saying "lá" is a little weird indeed. Not something we wouldn't understand though.

      March 15, 2018
      https://www.duolingo.com/JoyceHilary

        I do not hear the eu, so left it out and got it wrong!

        June 1, 2018
        https://www.duolingo.com/hkysonjr

          The clause "... he had already gone" and "...he'd already gone" should both be accepted as valid translations for this sentence.

          December 26, 2012
          https://www.duolingo.com/Lahure
          Plus
          • 1916

          Perfectly correct. I have found that answers without apostrophes are usually accepted more readily. So 'I am' is preferable to I'm and 'do not' is better than don't etc. We will have to play by their rules. It is (not it's) their ball after all!

          October 15, 2013
          https://www.duolingo.com/shroudedhills

            Is "he had already left" okay? It was marked wrong.

            November 8, 2014
            https://www.duolingo.com/Danmoller
            Mod

              In this sentence, ok.

              But this is a specific case. For all general cases:

              • Ido = gone
              • Saído = left
              • Ido embora = gone away
              March 15, 2018
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