Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb manger

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

manger is a regular verb with spelling changes

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 mangeai	I ate
tu mangeas	you ate
il mangea	he ate
elle mangea	she ate
nous mangeâmes	we ate
vous mangeâtes	you ate
ils mangèrent	they ate
elles mangèrent	they ate

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