Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb reconnaître

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

reconnaître 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 reconnus	I recognized
tu reconnus	you recognized
il reconnut	he recognized
elle reconnut	she recognized
nous reconnûmes	we recognized
vous reconnûtes	you recognized
ils reconnurent	they recognized
elles reconnurent	they recognized

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