Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb reconnaître

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

reconnaître 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 reconnus	I admitted
tu reconnus	you admitted
il reconnut	he admitted
elle reconnut	she admitted
nous reconnûmes	we admitted
vous reconnûtes	you admitted
ils reconnurent	they admitted
elles reconnurent	they admitted

Regular conjugation

Irregular conjugation

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