Subtract three from eight and you get five.
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Subtract
//səbˈtɹækt//
Synonyms for "subtract" (113 found)
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15 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entrieshas context
1 entriesholonym
1 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
66 translations across 40 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀφαιρέω verb (to remove or reduce)
Armenian
1 entries- հանել verb (to remove or reduce)
Aromanian
1 entries- scad verb (to remove or reduce)
Asturian
2 entries- restar verb (to remove or reduce)
- sustraer verb (to remove or reduce)
Belarusian
2 entries- адня́ць verb (to remove or reduce)
- адыма́ць verb (to remove or reduce)
Bikol Central
1 entries- ina verb (to remove or reduce)
Bulgarian
2 entries- извадя verb (to remove or reduce)
- изваждам verb (to remove or reduce)
Catalan
2 entries- restar verb (to remove or reduce)
- sostreure verb (to remove or reduce)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 減 /减 verb (to remove or reduce)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 扣除 verb (to remove or reduce)
- 減 /减 verb (to remove or reduce)
- 減去 /减去 verb (to remove or reduce)
Czech
1 entries- odečíst verb (to remove or reduce)
Dutch
2 entries- aftrekken verb (to remove or reduce)
- in mindering brengen verb (to remove or reduce)
Esperanto
2 entries- depreni verb (to remove or reduce)
- subtrahi verb (to remove or reduce)
Finnish
1 entries- vähentää verb (to remove or reduce)
French
1 entries- soustraire verb (to remove or reduce)
Galician
2 entries- restar verb (to remove or reduce)
- subtraer verb (to remove or reduce)
German
2 entries- abziehen verb (to remove or reduce)
- subtrahieren verb (to remove or reduce)
Greek
1 entries- αφαιρώ verb (to remove or reduce)
Hungarian
2 entries- kivon verb (to remove or reduce)
- levon verb (to remove or reduce)
Ingrian
1 entries- vähentää verb (to remove or reduce)
Italian
1 entries- sottrarre verb (to remove or reduce)
Japanese
2 entries- 引く verb (to remove or reduce)
- 減らす verb (to remove or reduce)
Khmer
2 entries- លស់ verb (to remove or reduce)
- សង verb (to remove or reduce)
Korean
1 entries- 빼다 verb (to remove or reduce)
Latin
2 entries- dēdūcō verb (to remove or reduce)
- subtrahō verb (to remove or reduce)
Mongolian
1 entries- хасах verb (to remove or reduce)
Māori
1 entries- tango verb (to remove or reduce)
Norwegian
2 entries- subtrahere verb (to remove or reduce)
- trekke fra verb (to remove or reduce)
Polish
2 entries- odejmować verb (to remove or reduce)
- odjąć verb (to remove or reduce)
Portuguese
1 entries- subtrair verb (to remove or reduce)
Quechua
1 entries- qichuy verb (to remove or reduce)
Romanian
2 entries- scădea verb (to remove or reduce)
- sustrage verb (to remove or reduce)
Russian
4 entries- вы́честь verb (to remove or reduce)
- вычита́ть verb (to remove or reduce)
- отнима́ть verb (to remove or reduce)
- отня́ть verb (to remove or reduce)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- oduzeti verb (to remove or reduce)
- одузети verb (to remove or reduce)
Spanish
3 entries- restar verb (to remove or reduce)
- substraer verb (to remove or reduce)
- sustraer verb (to remove or reduce)
Swedish
2 entries- dra ifrån verb (to remove or reduce)
- subtrahera verb (to remove or reduce)
Tagalog
2 entries- bawasin verb (to remove or reduce)
- magbawas verb (to remove or reduce)
Thai
1 entries- ลบ verb (to remove or reduce)
Ukrainian
2 entries- відня́ти verb (to remove or reduce)
- відніма́ти verb (to remove or reduce)
Vietnamese
1 entries- trừ verb (to remove or reduce)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Can you subtract six from ten?
Source: tatoeba (73455)
Subtract two from ten and you have eight.
Source: tatoeba (73472)
The children are learning to add and subtract.
Source: tatoeba (246045)
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