sostreure
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Catalan[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin subtrahere (“to remove”); adapted to inherited treure and with the first syllable altered by analogy with words like sosllevar and soscavar, which contain a prefix derived from the archaic preposition sots.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Central) [susˈtɾɛw.ɾə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [sosˈtɾɛw.ɾə]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [sosˈtɾew.ɾe]
Verb[edit]
sostreure (first-person singular present sostrec or sostrac, first-person singular preterite sostraguí, past participle sostret); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencian) /e/
- (transitive) to remove, to relieve, to take away
- Res no podrà sostreure a l’esser humà de les tristes condicions de la seva existència: patir i morir.
- Nothing will be able to relieve human beings of the sad conditions of their existence: to suffer and die.
- (arithmetic, transitive) to subtract
- (transitive) to steal
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to steal away, to get away (from a), to evade, to resist
- Em vaig poder sostreure a l'entorn hostil que hi havia.
- I was able to escape the hostile environment that was there.
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of sostreure (second conjugation, irregular, with velar infix)
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Further reading[edit]
- “sostreure” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.