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Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin subtractus, perfect passive participle of subtrahō (“I draw from beneath; withdraw, remove”); from sub (“under”) + trahō (“I draw, pull, drag”).
Pronunciation
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subtract (third-person singular simple present subtracts, present participle subtracting, simple past and past participle subtracted)
- (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.
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Translations
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to remove or reduce
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- 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)
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