"passé simple" meaning in French

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "passés simples",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "passé simple m (plural passés simples)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        {
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          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Grammar",
          "orig": "fr:Grammar",
          "parents": [
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            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
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            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I understand that I lack control / But fortunately, I take responsibility for my mistakes / Your simple past is not so simple",
          "ref": "2023, “French Kiss”, performed by Chilly Gonzales:",
          "text": "Je comprends que je manque de maîtrise / Mais heureusement, j’assume mes bêtises / Votre passé simple n’est pas si simple",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "past historic tense, a tense used in some languages (such as French and Italian) in narrative, roughly equivalent to the simple past or preterite in English"
      ],
      "id": "en-passé_simple-fr-noun-MURHV2JR",
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        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "past historic tense",
          "past historic tense"
        ],
        [
          "narrative",
          "narrative"
        ],
        [
          "simple past",
          "simple past"
        ],
        [
          "preterite",
          "preterite"
        ]
      ],
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        "(grammar) past historic tense, a tense used in some languages (such as French and Italian) in narrative, roughly equivalent to the simple past or preterite in English"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pa.se sɛ̃pl/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɑ.se sɛ̃pl/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "passé simple"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "passés simples",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "passé simple m (plural passés simples)",
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    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French masculine nouns",
        "French multiword terms",
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        "French terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "fr:Grammar",
        "fr:Tenses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I understand that I lack control / But fortunately, I take responsibility for my mistakes / Your simple past is not so simple",
          "ref": "2023, “French Kiss”, performed by Chilly Gonzales:",
          "text": "Je comprends que je manque de maîtrise / Mais heureusement, j’assume mes bêtises / Votre passé simple n’est pas si simple",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "past historic tense, a tense used in some languages (such as French and Italian) in narrative, roughly equivalent to the simple past or preterite in English"
      ],
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        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "past historic tense",
          "past historic tense"
        ],
        [
          "narrative",
          "narrative"
        ],
        [
          "simple past",
          "simple past"
        ],
        [
          "preterite",
          "preterite"
        ]
      ],
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        "(grammar) past historic tense, a tense used in some languages (such as French and Italian) in narrative, roughly equivalent to the simple past or preterite in English"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/pa.se sɛ̃pl/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɑ.se sɛ̃pl/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "passé simple"
}