Breakdown of La bête ferma la porte du château et resta là.
là
there
et
and
le château
the castle
du
of the / from the (masculine singular, with plural des)
Questions & Answers about La bête ferma la porte du château et resta là.
Why does the sentence use ferma instead of a fermé?
Ferma is the passé simple (historic past) form of the regular -er verb fermer (to close). You will mostly see this tense in written stories, fairy tales, and literature. In everyday spoken French, you would use the passé composé and say a fermé.
Is resta also in the passé simple?
Yes! It is the passé simple of rester (to stay) for the third-person singular (he, she, or it). Regular -er verbs always drop the -er and add -a for this form in the passé simple.
If I wanted to say that the beast stayed in everyday spoken French, would I say a resté?
Why does là have an accent mark over the letter a?
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