Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb devoir

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

devoir 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 dus	I owed
tu dus	you owed
il dut	he owed
elle dut	she owed
nous dûmes	we owed
vous dûtes	you owed
ils durent	they owed
elles durent	they owed

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