strove

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) strive

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) strives

Past tense (ya wuce) strove

Past participle (ya wuce) striven

Present participle (ana cikin yi) striving

1. The past tense of strive.

   Though they strove to avoid doing wrong, they did not always succeed. <> Ko da sun ƙoƙarta su daina yin abu marar kyau, amma sun kasa. [1]