Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb écrire

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

écrire 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'écrivis	I wrote
tu écrivis	you wrote
il écrivit	he wrote
elle écrivit	she wrote
nous écrivîmes	we wrote
vous écrivîtes	you wrote
ils écrivirent	they wrote
elles écrivirent	they wrote

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