Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb retourner

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

retourner 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 retournai	I returned
tu retournas	you returned
il retourna	he returned
elle retourna	she returned
nous retournâmes	we returned
vous retournâtes	you returned
ils retournèrent	they returned
elles retournèrent	they returned

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