Past of the Italian verb essere

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

essere 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 fui	I was
tu fosti	you were
lui fu	he was
lei fu	she was
noi fummo	we were
voi foste	you were
loro furono	they were

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