YOU SAID:
my house just burnt down
INTO JAPANESE
私の家はちょうど全焼しました
BACK INTO ENGLISH
my house just burned down
INTO JAPANESE
私の家はちょうど燃えました
BACK INTO ENGLISH
my house just burned
INTO JAPANESE
私の家はちょうど燃えた
BACK INTO ENGLISH
my house just burned
That didn't even make that much sense in English.