Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb lire

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

lire 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 lus	I read
tu lus	you read
il lut	he read
elle lut	she read
nous lûmes	we read
vous lûtes	you read
ils lurent	they read
elles lurent	they read

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