Past Historic / Passato remoto of the Italian verb cominciare

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

cominciare is a regular 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 cominciai	I began
tu cominciasti	you began
lui cominciò	he began
lei cominciò	she began
noi cominciammo	we began
voi cominciaste	you began
loro cominciarono	they began

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