Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb devancer

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

devancer 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 devançai	I outstripped
tu devanças	you outstripped
il devança	he outstripped
elle devança	she outstripped
nous devançâmes	we outstripped
vous devançâtes	you outstripped
ils devancèrent	they outstripped
elles devancèrent	they outstripped

Regular conjugation

Irregular conjugation

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