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lui credette

believed

→ credere
cred to believe, to think + ette 3rd-person singular past
verb · 3rd-person singular, past tense Rare #36,747
believed This is a literary past-tense form, often replaced by the perfect tense in everyday conversation.
IT: Marta credette alla sua storia.
EN: Marta believed his story.
Conjugation of credere
Indicative past
SingularPlural
Third credette credettero

Sami credette a tutto.

Sami believed everything.

Nessuno gli credette, aveva solo la sua parola mentre lei aveva delle prove.

No one believed him; he only had his word, while she had evidence.

— Durante la tormenta (2018)

Non credette mai nell'Islam.

He never believed in Islam.

Perciò nessuno gli credette.

So nobody believed him.

— Durante la tormenta (2018)

Se non credette a Laura, che l'incidente era stato tra di noi?

What if he didn’t believe Laura that the accident had happened between us?

— Contrattempo (2017)

Lo dissi per scherzo e lui mi credette.

I said it as a joke, and he believed me.

— Ricky Gervais: Mortality (2025)