Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb empêcher

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

empêcher is a regular 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
j'empêchai	I prevented
tu empêchas	you prevented
il empêcha	he prevented
elle empêcha	she prevented
nous empêchâmes	we prevented
vous empêchâtes	you prevented
ils empêchèrent	they prevented
elles empêchèrent	they prevented

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