Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb désespérer

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

désespérer 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 désespérai	I despaired
tu désespéras	you despaired
il désespéra	he despaired
elle désespéra	she despaired
nous désespérâmes	we despaired
vous désespérâtes	you despaired
ils désespérèrent	they despaired
elles désespérèrent	they despaired

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