Direct and Indirect object pronoun placement?

Question

For my French studies, I must translate this sentence into French, but I am struggling with understanding pronoun placement.

Context: 'He sent the book to David at high school.' = 'Il a envoyé le livre à David au lycée.'

Sentence: 'He already sent it to him there.' = ???

What I've come up with: 'Il déjà le lui y a envoyé.'

Is that anywhere near correct? Can you give me an example of how you would form this sentence, and how you would form it if it were a negative? E.g. 'He hasn't already sent it to him there.'

Answer 1

You are close. In that kind of sentences, the adverb déjà is normally located between the verb and the past participle so the correct form (if any) is:

Il le lui y a déjà envoyé.

That's a lot of pronouns though, so you would hear instead:

Il le lui a déjà envoyé.

or simply:

Il lui a déjà envoyé.

If there need to be specified, là-bas might be used instead of y:

Il le lui a déjà envoyé là-bas.

or

Il lui a déjà envoyé là-bas.

Negative is built using ne pas with ne immediately following the subject and pas after the verb, e.g.:

Il ne lui a pas déjà envoyé.

Answer 2

Il le lui y a déjà envoyé.

And for the negative form, déjà become encore.

Il ne le lui y a pas encore envoyé.

Good reference for pronoun order.

But i think both sentence are just for academic purpose. It's not really easy to understand sentence like that.