Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb commencer

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

commencer is a regular verb with spelling changes

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 commençai	I started
tu commenças	you started
il commença	he started
elle commença	she started
nous commençâmes	we started
vous commençâtes	you started
ils commencèrent	they started
elles commencèrent	they started

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