Past of the Italian verb sostenere

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

sostenere 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 sostenni	I supported
tu sostenesti	you supported
lui sostenne	he supported
lei sostenne	she supported
noi sostenemmo	we supported
voi sosteneste	you supported
loro sostennero	they supported

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