Preterite / Präteritum of the German verb treten

The Preterite / Präteritum tense conjugations for the German verb treten, 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 trat	I stepped
du tratest	you stepped
er trat	he stepped
sie trat	she stepped
wir traten	we stepped
ihr tratet	you stepped
sie traten	they stepped

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