sostreure

Catalan

Alternative forms

• sostraure

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): (Central) [susˈtɾɛw.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [sosˈtɾɛw.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [sosˈtɾew.ɾe]

Verb

sostreure (first-person singular present sostrec or sostrac, first-person singular preterite sostraguí, past participle sostret); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencian) /e/

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, irregular, with velar infix)

infinitive			sostreure
gerund			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, sostrac	sostreus, sostraus	sostreu, sostrau	sostraiem	sostraieu	sostreuen, sostrauen
	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
	affirmative	—	sostreu, sostrau	sostregui	sostraguem	sostraieu	sostreguin
	negative (no)	—	no sostreguis	no sostregui	no sostraguem	no sostragueu	no sostreguin

Derived terms

• sostreta

Related terms

• sostracció
• treure

Further reading

• “sostreure” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.