Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb battre

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

battre 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 battis	I beat
tu battis	you beat
il battit	he beat
elle battit	she beat
nous battîmes	we beat
vous battîtes	you beat
ils battirent	they beat
elles battirent	they beat

Regular conjugation

Irregular conjugation

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