Preterite / Präteritum of the German verb leben

The Preterite / Präteritum tense conjugations for the German verb leben, 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 lebte	I lived
du lebtest	you lived
er lebte	he lived
sie lebte	she lived
wir lebten	we lived
ihr lebtet	you lived
sie lebten	they lived

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