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Nov 10, 2012 - 11:06 PM
So far from german 4 this does not follow the time manner place order. Any explanation?
Nov 11, 2012 - 04:15 PM
As a native speaker I only can answer, that both two variations are correct in German. "Wir sind diese Strecke letztes Jahr in fünf Stunden gefahren" emphasizes the sentence on "this route", whereas "Wir sind letztes Jahr in fünf Stunden diese Strecke gefahren" on "last year". The special focus in both sentences is of course on "fünf Stunden", so in that way they are both very similar and correct German. The time manner place order is not a strict rule but helps to get a feeling for a proper sentence structure.
Besides that all a possibly better translation could be: "Wir fuhren ..." instead of "Wir sind ... gefahren".
Besides that all a possibly better translation could be: "Wir fuhren ..." instead of "Wir sind ... gefahren".