subtract

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• General-American: /səbˈtɹækt/
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• rhymes with -ækt
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• CMU ARPABET: S AH0 B T R AE1 K T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin subtractus, perfect passive participle of subtrahō (“to draw from beneath; withdraw, remove”); from sub (“under”) + trahō (“to draw, pull, drag”).

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Amharic: ቀነሰ (ḳänäsä) — to remove or reduce
• Armenian: հանել (hanel) — to remove or reduce
• Aromanian: scad — to remove or reduce
• Asturian: restar — to remove or reduce
• Asturian: sustraer — to remove or reduce
• Belarusian: адыма́ць (adymácʹ) — to remove or reduce
• Belarusian: адня́ць (adnjácʹ) — to remove or reduce
• Central Bikol: ina — to remove or reduce
• Bulgarian: изваждам (izvaždam) — to remove or reduce
• Bulgarian: извадя (izvadja) — to remove or reduce
• Catalan: sostreure — to remove or reduce
• Catalan: restar — to remove or reduce
• Chinese Cantonese: 減 /减 (gaam2) — to remove or reduce
• Chinese Mandarin: 減 /减 (jiǎn) — to remove or reduce
• Chinese Mandarin: 減去 /减去 (jiǎnqù) — to remove or reduce
• Chinese Mandarin: 扣除 (kòuchú) — to remove or reduce
• Czech: odečíst — to remove or reduce
• Dutch: aftrekken — to remove or reduce
• Dutch: in mindering brengen — to remove or reduce
• Esperanto: depreni — to remove or reduce
• Esperanto: subtrahi — to remove or reduce
• Finnish: vähentää — to remove or reduce
• French: soustraire — to remove or reduce
• Galician: subtraer — to remove or reduce
• Galician: restar — to remove or reduce
• German: subtrahieren — to remove or reduce
• German: abziehen — to remove or reduce
• Greek: αφαιρώ (afairó) — to remove or reduce
• Ancient Greek: ἀφαιρέω (aphairéō) — to remove or reduce
• Hungarian: kivon — to remove or reduce
• Hungarian: levon — to remove or reduce
• Indonesian: mengurangi — to remove or reduce
• Ingrian: vähentää — to remove or reduce
• Italian: sottrarre — to remove or reduce
• Japanese: 引く (hiku) — to remove or reduce
• Japanese: 減らす (herasu) — to remove or reduce
• Khmer: លស់ (lŭəh) — to remove or reduce
• Khmer: សង (sɑɑng) — to remove or reduce
• Korean: 빼다 (ppaeda) — to remove or reduce
• Latin: dēdūcō — to remove or reduce
• Latin: subtrahō — to remove or reduce
• Māori: tango — to remove or reduce
• Marshallese: bōk — to remove or reduce
• Mongolian: хасах (xasax) — to remove or reduce
• Norwegian: subtrahere — to remove or reduce
• Norwegian: trekke fra — to remove or reduce
• Polish: odejmować — to remove or reduce
• Polish: odjąć — to remove or reduce
• Portuguese: subtrair — to remove or reduce
• Quechua: qichuy — to remove or reduce
• Romanian: scădea — to remove or reduce
• Romanian: sustrage — to remove or reduce
• Russian: вычита́ть (vyčitátʹ) — to remove or reduce
• Russian: вы́честь (výčestʹ) — to remove or reduce
• Russian: отнима́ть (otnimátʹ) — to remove or reduce
• Russian: отня́ть (otnjátʹ) — to remove or reduce
• Serbo-Croatian: одузети — to remove or reduce
• Serbo-Croatian: oduzeti — to remove or reduce
• Southern Altai: айрып ийер (ayrïp iyer) — to remove or reduce
• Southern Altai: айрып алар (ayrïp alar) — to remove or reduce
• Southern Altai: кезип таштап салар (kezip taštap salar) — to remove or reduce
• Spanish: restar — to remove or reduce
• Spanish: sustraer — to remove or reduce
• Spanish: substraer — to remove or reduce
• Swedish: subtrahera — to remove or reduce
• Swedish: dra ifrån — to remove or reduce
• Tagalog: magbawas — to remove or reduce
• Tagalog: bawasin — to remove or reduce
• Thai: ลบ (lóp) — to remove or reduce
• Ukrainian: відніма́ти (vidnimáty) — to remove or reduce
• Ukrainian: відня́ти (vidnjáty) — to remove or reduce
• Vietnamese: trừ — to remove or reduce