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écrivît
-he/she wrote
Imperfect subjunctive il/elle conjugation of écrire.
écrivit
Past historic il/elle conjugation of écrire.

écrire

Bien que l'auteur écrivît le cycle poétique en 1914, peu après le déclenchement du conflit, le livre ne put être publié qu'en 1919.
Although the author wrote the poetic cycle in 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the war, the book could be published only in 1919.
Bien avant qu’Alcuin n’enseignât ou qu’Anselme n’écrivît, les habitants d’Alexandrie d'Egypte allaient écouter saint Antoine l’Ermite dans le désert et les Romains envoyaient leurs fils chez saint Benoît.
Long before Alcuin taught or Anselm wrote, the citizens of Alexandria in Egypt went into the desert to listen to the abbot St. Anthony, and the Romans brought their children to St. Benedict.
Je rappelai que j’eusse lu dans un livre qui écrivît que la tour de Yasaka fût le symbole de la prospérité des gens de Yasaka qui fussent dérivés de la dynastie de Koguryo.
I recalled that I read in a book that wrote that the Yasaka tower was the symbol of prosperity of Yasaka people who were derived from the Koguryo dynasty.
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