Past Historic / Passé Simple of the French verb écouter

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

écouter 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
j'écoutai	I listened
tu écoutas	you listened
il écouta	he listened
elle écouta	she listened
nous écoutâmes	we listened
vous écoutâtes	you listened
ils écoutèrent	they listened
elles écoutèrent	they listened

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