Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb venir

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

venir 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 vins	I came
tu vins	you came
il vint	he came
elle vint	she came
nous vînmes	we came
vous vîntes	you came
ils vinrent	they came
elles vinrent	they came

Regular conjugation

Irregular conjugation

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