Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb mentir

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

mentir 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 mentis	I lied
tu mentis	you lied
il mentit	he lied
elle mentit	she lied
nous mentîmes	we lied
vous mentîtes	you lied
ils mentirent	they lied
elles mentirent	they lied

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