Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb compter

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

compter is a regular 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 comptai	I counted
tu comptas	you counted
il compta	he counted
elle compta	she counted
nous comptâmes	we counted
vous comptâtes	you counted
ils comptèrent	they counted
elles comptèrent	they counted

Regular conjugation

Irregular conjugation

Spelling change

Learn these with