Ponemmo

Ponemmo is the passato remoto, the first-person plural form of the Italian verb porre, meaning "we placed" or "we set." It is used in literary or historical writing to denote a completed action in the distant past. The form is irregular in this tense because the noi form uses ponemmo and the stem shifts to pon- from porre. The other forms in the passato remoto of porre are: io posi, tu ponesti, lui/lei pose, noi ponemmo, voi poneste, loro posero.

In contemporary Italian, the passato remoto is largely reserved for formal writing and narrative prose; in everyday speech, speakers typically employ the passato prossimo or other compound tenses. Consequently ponemmo appears mainly in novels, historical chronicles, letters, or regional literary traditions that preserve traditional tense usage.

Example sentences:

Noi ponemmo le sedie sul prato. (We set the chairs on the lawn.)

Quando arrivammo, ponemmo la tenda all’ingresso. (When we arrived, we set up the tent at the entrance.)

See also: porre, passato remoto, Italian grammar.