Preterite / Präteritum of the German verb lesen

The Preterite / Präteritum tense conjugations for the German verb lesen, along with their English translations.

Preterite / Präteritum This is more a literary tense, i.e. a tense used in writing, in everyday speech the Perfekt is used to refer to past actions.		Scored
ich las	I read
du last	you read
er las	he read
sie las	she read
wir lasen	we read
ihr last	you read
sie lasen	they read

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