Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb vaincre

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

vaincre 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 vainquis	I defeated
tu vainquis	you defeated
il vainquit	he defeated
elle vainquit	she defeated
nous vainquîmes	we defeated
vous vainquîtes	you defeated
ils vainquirent	they defeated
elles vainquirent	they defeated

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