Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb découvrir

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

découvrir 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 découvris	I discovered
tu découvris	you discovered
il découvrit	he discovered
elle découvrit	she discovered
nous découvrîmes	we discovered
vous découvrîtes	you discovered
ils découvrirent	they discovered
elles découvrirent	they discovered

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