English Translation
This is the same purse that I have lost a week ago.
Hmm. Doesn’t sound quite right to me. Ho perso – I have lost. Not avevo perso – I had lost?
I am not sure but:
Questa è la stessa borsa che ho perso una settimana fa … e non riesco a trovare.
Questa è la stessa borsa che avevo perso una settimana fa … e ho trovato ieri.
The first sentence is correct if e.g. the person is shown a foto of the purse, the second one if (s)he helds the purse in hand.
Isn’t it the same in English?
I translate it as “This is the same bag I lost a week ago”.
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The strange thing about this cloze is that the English “translation” seems to have been changed from the one on Tatoeba, which is “This is the same purse that I lost a week ago.” The Italian passato prossimo (or remoto?) is thus the natural choice.
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