Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb reculer

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

reculer is a regular 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 reculai	I moved back
tu reculas	you moved back
il recula	he moved back
elle recula	she moved back
nous reculâmes	we moved back
vous reculâtes	you moved back
ils reculèrent	they moved back
elles reculèrent	they moved back

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