Past Historic / Passato remoto of the Italian verb tenere

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

tenere 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 tenni	I kept
tu tenesti	you kept
lui tenne	he kept
lei tenne	she kept
noi tenemmo	we kept
voi teneste	you kept
loro tennero	they kept

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