Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb espérer

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

espérer is a regular verb with spelling changes

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
j'espérai	I hoped
tu espéras	you hoped
il espéra	he hoped
elle espéra	she hoped
nous espérâmes	we hoped
vous espérâtes	you hoped
ils espérèrent	they hoped
elles espérèrent	they hoped

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