Past Historic / Passato remoto of the Italian verb contenere

The Past Historic / Passato remoto tense conjugations for the Italian verb contenere, along with their English translations.

contenere is an irregular verb

Past Historic / Passato remoto This is a literary tense, i.e. a tense used in writing, in everyday speech the Passato Prossimo is used to refer to past actions.		Scored
io contenni	I contained
tu contenesti	you contained
lui contenne	he contained
lei contenne	she contained
noi contenemmo	we contained
voi conteneste	you contained
loro contennero	they contained

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