Brûla pendant huit jours. = burned for ei | French Q & A

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brûla pendant huit jours. = burned for eight days.

L'huile, qui ne devait brûler qu'un jour, brûla pendant huit jours.The oil, which was supposed to burn only one day, burned for eight days.I have a question in one of the quiz of this lesson, I don't have problem with the use of qui. I just want to know what tense 'brûla' is in. It isn't passe compose nor imperfect. I can't figure out what tense it is.

This question relates to:French lesson "Qui = Who/which/that (French Relative Pronouns)"

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Chris W.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor Correct answer

It is passé simple, a tense mostly used in literary French. Here is more on it:

https://french.kwiziq.com/revision/glossary/verb-tense-mood/the-french-simple-past-le-passe-simple

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brûla pendant huit jours. = burned for eight days.

L'huile, qui ne devait brûler qu'un jour, brûla pendant huit jours.The oil, which was supposed to burn only one day, burned for eight days.I have a question in one of the quiz of this lesson, I don't have problem with the use of qui. I just want to know what tense 'brûla' is in. It isn't passe compose nor imperfect. I can't figure out what tense it is.

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