Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb plaindre

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

plaindre 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 plaignis	I pitied
tu plaignis	you pitied
il plaignit	he pitied
elle plaignit	she pitied
nous plaignîmes	we pitied
vous plaignîtes	you pitied
ils plaignirent	they pitied
elles plaignirent	they pitied

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