Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb pouvoir

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

pouvoir 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 pus	I could
tu pus	you could
il put	he could
elle put	she could
nous pûmes	we could
vous pûtes	you could
ils purent	they could
elles purent	they could

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