Past of the Italian verb pretendere

The past tense conjugations for the Italian verb pretendere, along with their English translations.

pretendere 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 pretesi	I claimed
tu pretendesti	you claimed
lui pretese	he claimed
lei pretese	she claimed
noi pretendemmo	we claimed
voi pretendeste	you claimed
loro pretesero	they claimed

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