Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb tenter

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

tenter 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 tentai	I attempted
tu tentas	you attempted
il tenta	he attempted
elle tenta	she attempted
nous tentâmes	we attempted
vous tentâtes	you attempted
ils tentèrent	they attempted
elles tentèrent	they attempted

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