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L'enfant a joué avec une luge pendant notre séjour.

L'enfant a joué avec une luge pendant notre séjour.
The child played with a sled during our stay.
From Lesson 99:Closed duration (pendant)·French

Questions & Answers about L'enfant a joué avec une luge pendant notre séjour.

The lesson is about pendant meaning 'for', but here it translates to 'during'. Why?
Pendant is used to describe any closed, defined period of time. When it is followed by a specific length of time, it translates to 'for' (like pendant trois jours - for three days). When it is followed by an event or a noun, as it is in this sentence, it translates to 'during' (pendant notre séjour - during our stay).
Why do we use a joué instead of just saying l'enfant joué?
In French, the most common past tense (the passé composé) requires two parts to work: a helper verb and a past action. Here, a is the helper verb (from avoir, meaning to have) and joué is the past action (played). You need both parts to correctly say that the child played.
I sometimes mix up notre and nos. Why is it notre séjour here?
Notre means 'our' when the thing you own is singular, while nos is used for plural things. Because they are talking about one single stay (séjour), we use notre. If they were talking about multiple trips, it would be nos séjours.
Is the word luge related to the Olympic sport?
Yes! While English mostly uses the word 'luge' for the extreme winter sport, in French, une luge is simply the everyday word for a sled or toboggan that kids use to play on a snowy hill.

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