Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb exister

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

exister 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'existai	I existed
tu existas	you existed
il exista	he existed
elle exista	she existed
nous existâmes	we existed
vous existâtes	you existed
ils existèrent	they existed
elles existèrent	they existed

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