Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb penser

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

penser is a regular 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 pensai	I thought
tu pensas	you thought
il pensa	he thought
elle pensa	she thought
nous pensâmes	we thought
vous pensâtes	you thought
ils pensèrent	they thought
elles pensèrent	they thought

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