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[supple fjord]

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[civic hinge]

You’re missing a « que »

[full mauve]

Just to add to Andy’s point, where in English you can drop the conjunction ‘that’ and certain relative pronouns, you cannot do so in French. Two examples:

(1) « J’espère que tu as tort. »
The conjunction in English, that, can be dropped or retained to produce either, ‘I hope you’re wrong’ or ‘I hope that you’re wrong’; in French, you cannot drop it and it must stay there.

2. « L’homme que je connais est professeur »
   The relative pronoun in English who – well whom since que is an object relative pronoun but ‘whom’ is losing ground so I put ‘who’ – can be dropped in English to produce either, ‘The man I know is a professor’ or ‘The man who(m) I know is a professor’; in French, this cannot be dropped.

[silk bridge]

On top of what the other commenters said about “que”: “là-bas” is used to refer to actual locations that are far away from you, you wouldn’t use it to describe the inside of a wardrobe.

Better alternatives:

… encombré de vêtements que j’avais fourrés dedans
or
… encombré de vêtements que j’y avais fourrés