Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb ouvrir

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

ouvrir 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
j'ouvris	I opened
tu ouvris	you opened
il ouvrit	he opened
elle ouvrit	she opened
nous ouvrîmes	we opened
vous ouvrîtes	you opened
ils ouvrirent	they opened
elles ouvrirent	they opened

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