Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb vouloir

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

vouloir 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 voulus	I wanted
tu voulus	you wanted
il voulut	he wanted
elle voulut	she wanted
nous voulûmes	we wanted
vous voulûtes	you wanted
ils voulurent	they wanted
elles voulurent	they wanted

Regular conjugation

Irregular conjugation

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