Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb saisir

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

saisir 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 saisis	I gripped
tu saisis	you gripped
il saisit	he gripped
elle saisit	she gripped
nous saisîmes	we gripped
vous saisîtes	you gripped
ils saisirent	they gripped
elles saisirent	they gripped

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