sustraer
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier substraer, borrowed from Latin subtrahere.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sustraer (first-person singular present sustraigo, first-person singular preterite sustraje, past participle sustraído)
- (transitive, mathematics) to subtract
- (transitive) to take away, put aside
- (transitive) to steal, rob
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 200:
- Para que una persona que se empeña en cambiar de residencia, permanezca en el lugar donde está, todo el tiempo que se desea, no hay sino substraerle, sin que ella lo sepa, alguna prenda de uso personal suyo, y llevársela a una Bruja para que la vuelva piedra.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (reflexive) (+ de algo) to do away with
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of sustraer (irregular) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of sustraer (irregular)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sustraer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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