Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb savoir

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

savoir 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 sus	I knew
tu sus	you knew
il sut	he knew
elle sut	she knew
nous sûmes	we knew
vous sûtes	you knew
ils surent	they knew
elles surent	they knew

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