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Phrase · 🔦 Emphasising and focusing

Fue precisamente entonces cuando todo cambió.

It was precisely then that everything changed.

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Why every word is where it is

Fue1verbwasser · past · 3rd sing.precisamenteadverbprecisely, exactlyentoncesadverbthen, socuando2conjunctionwhentodopronouneverythingmasc. · sing.cambióverbchangedcambiar · past · 3rd sing..
  • Fue → entonces: focus
  • cuando → entonces: matches the focus

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    Cleft: ser in the same tense as the main event. Emphasis and information structure: clefts and lo … que →
  2. 2
    A time in focus takes cuando, not que. Emphasis and information structure: clefts and lo … que →