For 'I swam' in the past tense, use 'j'ai nagé' with the auxiliary verb 'avoir.' Nager is the French verb that means "to swim." When you want to change it to the present, past, or future tense, you will need to know how to conjugate it and a quick lesson will show you how that's done.
NAGER translate: to swim, swim, swim. Learn more in the Cambridge French-English Dictionary.
English Translation of “NAGER” | The official Collins French-English Dictionary online. Over 100,000 English translations of French words and phrases.
From Old French nager, nagier. nager. This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost.
dive v. Je préfèrerais nager dans un marécage infesté de crocodiles. I'd rather dive into a swamp filled with crocodiles.
Fig., Nager en grande eau, Être dans l'abondance, jouir d'une grande fortune, se trouver dans de grandes occasions d'avancer ses affaires. Fig., Nager dans l'opulence, Jouir de grandes richesses.
Simple and compound conjugations for the spelling change French verb nager. - Lawless French.
Conjugate Nager in every French verb tense including present, past, imperfect, future, conditional, and subjunctive.
A list of the common conjugations for the French verb nager, along with their English translations. 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.