Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb expliquer

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

expliquer 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'expliquai	I explained
tu expliquas	you explained
il expliqua	he explained
elle expliqua	she explained
nous expliquâmes	we explained
vous expliquâtes	you explained
ils expliquèrent	they explained
elles expliquèrent	they explained

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