Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb parler

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

parler 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 parlai	I talked
tu parlas	you talked
il parla	he talked
elle parla	she talked
nous parlâmes	we talked
vous parlâtes	you talked
ils parlèrent	they talked
elles parlèrent	they talked

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