sostreure

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Alternative forms
  • sostraure

Etymology

From Latin subtrahō (“I remove”), with the first syllable altered by analogy with words like sosllevar and soscavar which contain a prefix derived from the archaic preposition sots.

Pronunciation

Verb

sostreure (first-person singular present sostrec, past participle sostret)

  1. (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.
  2. (arithmetic, transitive) to subtract
  3. (transitive) to steal
  4. (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
    Conjugation of sostreure (second conjugation, vowel stem with imperfect -ia)
infinitive sostreure
present participle sostraient
past participle masculine feminine
singular sostret sostreta
plural sostrets sostretes
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu ell/ella
vostè		 nosaltres
nós		 vosaltres
vós		 ells/elles
vostès
present sostrec sostreus sostreu sostraiem sostraieu sostreuen
imperfect sostreia sostreies sostreia sostrèiem sostrèieu sostreien
future sostrauré sostrauràs sostraurà sostraurem sostraureu sostrauran
preterite sostraguí sostragueres sostragué sostraguérem sostraguéreu sostragueren
conditional sostrauria sostrauries sostrauria sostrauríem sostrauríeu sostraurien
subjunctive jo tu ell/ella
vostè		 nosaltres
nós		 vosaltres
vós		 ells/elles
vostès
present sostregui sostreguis sostregui sostraguem sostragueu sostreguin
imperfect sostragués sostraguessis sostragués sostraguéssim sostraguéssiu sostraguessin
imperative — tu vostè nosaltres vosaltres
vós		 vostès
— sostreu sostregui sostraguem sostraieu sostreguin

Derived terms
  • sostreta

Further reading
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