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Questions & Answers about La cena è rimasta bruciata nel forno.
Why does this sentence use è rimasta instead of è stata?
Using rimanere (here as è rimasta) creates a resultative passive. While è stata bruciata focuses on the action of someone burning the dinner, è rimasta bruciata focuses purely on the resulting state: the dinner was left, or ended up, in a burnt condition.
Can I use restare instead of rimanere in this sentence?
Yes, you can say La cena è restata bruciata. When forming the resultative passive voice, restare and rimanere are interchangeable and both perfectly express the resulting state of an event.
Why do both rimasta and bruciata end in -a?
Both words must agree in gender and number with the feminine singular subject, la cena. Because rimanere takes essere as its auxiliary, its past participle (rimasta) changes to match the subject. The second past participle (bruciata) acts as an adjective describing the dinner's state, so it also requires the feminine singular -a ending.
Why use nel forno instead of just in forno?