subtract

English

Alternative forms

• substract (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin subtractus, perfect passive participle of subtrahō (“I draw from beneath; withdraw, remove”); from sub (“under”) + trahō (“I draw, pull, drag”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /səbˈtɹækt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ækt

Verb

subtract (third-person singular simple present subtracts, present participle subtracting, simple past and past participle subtracted)

1. (transitive, arithmetic) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number

   If you subtract the $100 for gas from the total cost, it was a fairly inexpensive trip.

Synonyms

• unadd

Antonyms

• add

Related terms

• subtraction
• subtractor

Translations

to remove or reduce

• Armenian: հանել (hy) (hanel)
• Aromanian: scad
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: адыма́ць impf (adymácʹ), адня́ць pf (adnjácʹ)
• Bikol Central: ina (bcl)
• Catalan: sostreure (ca), restar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 減／减 (gaam²)

  Mandarin: 減／减 (zh) (jiǎn), 減去／减去 (zh) (jiǎnqù), 扣除 (zh) (kòuchú)

• Czech: odečíst
• Dutch: aftrekken (nl), in mindering brengen
• Esperanto: depreni
• Finnish: vähentää (fi)
• French: soustraire (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: subtrahieren (de), abziehen (de)
• Greek: αφαιρώ (el) (afairó)

  Ancient: ἀφαιρέω (aphairéō)

• Hungarian: kivon (hu), levon (hu)
• Ingrian: vähentää
• Italian: sottrarre (it)
• Japanese: 引く (ja) (ひく, hiku), 減らす (ja) (へらす, herasu)
• Khmer: លស់ (km) (lŭəh), សង (km) (sɑɑng)
• Korean: 빼다 (ko) (ppaeda)
• Latin: dēdūcō (la), subtrahō
• Maori: tango
• Mongolian: хасах (mn) (xasax)
• Norwegian: subtrahere (no), trekke fra
• Polish: odejmować (pl) impf, odjąć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: subtrair (pt)
• Quechua: qichuy
• Romanian: scădea (ro), sustrage (ro)
• Russian: вычита́ть (ru) impf (vyčitátʹ), вы́честь (ru) pf (výčestʹ), отнима́ть (ru) impf (otnimátʹ), отня́ть (ru) pf (otnjátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: oduzeti (sh), одузети
• Spanish: substraer (es), restar (es)
• Swedish: subtrahera (sv), dra ifrån (sv)
• Tagalog: magbawas, bawasin
• Thai: ลบ (th) (lóp)
• Ukrainian: відніма́ти impf (vidnimáty), відня́ти pf (vidnjáty)
• Vietnamese: trừ (vi)