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

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