Past Historic / Passato remoto of the Italian verb difendere

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

difendere 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 difesi	I defended
tu difendesti	you defended
lui difese	he defended
lei difese	she defended
noi difendemmo	we defended
voi difendeste	you defended
loro difesero	they defended

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