Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb comprendre

The Past Historic / Passé Simple tense conjugations for the French verb comprendre, along with their English translations.

comprendre is an irregular verb

Verb phrases

Past Historic / Passé Simple This is a literary tense, i.e. a tense used in writing, in everyday speech the Passé Composé is used to refer to past actions.		Scored
je compris	I understood
tu compris	you understood
il comprit	he understood
elle comprit	she understood
nous comprîmes	we understood
vous comprîtes	you understood
ils comprirent	they understood
elles comprirent	they understood

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