Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb maintenir

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

maintenir 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 maintins	I maintained
tu maintins	you maintained
il maintint	he maintained
elle maintint	she maintained
nous maintînmes	we maintained
vous maintîntes	you maintained
ils maintinrent	they maintained
elles maintinrent	they maintained

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