Past of the Italian verb stare

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

stare 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 stetti	I stayed
tu stesti	you stayed
lui stette	he stayed
lei stette	she stayed
noi stemmo	we stayed
voi steste	you stayed
loro stettero	they stayed

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