Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb couvrir

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

couvrir 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 couvris	I covered
tu couvris	you covered
il couvrit	he covered
elle couvrit	she covered
nous couvrîmes	we covered
vous couvrîtes	you covered
ils couvrirent	they covered
elles couvrirent	they covered

Regular conjugation

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