Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to subtract
Participle: subtracted
Gerund: subtracting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | subtract |
| you | subtract |
| he;she;it | subtracts |
| we | subtract |
| you | subtract |
| they | subtract |
Perfect
| I | have subtracted |
| you | have subtracted |
| he;she;it | has subtracted |
| we | have subtracted |
| you | have subtracted |
| they | have subtracted |
Past
| I | subtracted |
| you | subtracted |
| he;she;it | subtracted |
| we | subtracted |
| you | subtracted |
| they | subtracted |
Pluperfect
| I | had subtracted |
| you | had subtracted |
| he;she;it | had subtracted |
| we | had subtracted |
| you | had subtracted |
| they | had subtracted |
Future
| I | will subtract |
| you | will subtract |
| he;she;it | will subtract |
| we | will subtract |
| you | will subtract |
| they | will subtract |
Future Perfect
| I | will have subtracted |
| you | will have subtracted |
| he;she;it | will have subtracted |
| we | will have subtracted |
| you | will have subtracted |
| they | will have subtracted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | subtract |
| you | subtract |
| he;she;it | subtract |
| we | subtract |
| you | subtract |
| they | subtract |
Perfect
| I | have subtracted |
| you | have subtracted |
| he;she;it | have subtracted |
| we | have subtracted |
| you | have subtracted |
| they | have subtracted |
Imperfect
| I | subtracted |
| you | subtracted |
| he;she;it | subtracted |
| we | subtracted |
| you | subtracted |
| they | subtracted |
Pluperfect
| I | had subtracted |
| you | had subtracted |
| he;she;it | had subtracted |
| we | had subtracted |
| you | had subtracted |
| they | had subtracted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would subtract |
| you | would subtract |
| he;she;it | would subtract |
| we | would subtract |
| you | would subtract |
| they | would subtract |
Perfect
| I | would have subtracted |
| you | would have subtracted |
| he;she;it | would have subtracted |
| we | would have subtracted |
| you | would have subtracted |
| they | would have subtracted |
Imperative
| you | subtract |
| we | Let's subtract |
| you | subtract |
Verbs conjugated like 'subtract'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'subtract'
substract,
subact,
subgrant,
substruct,
abstract,
attract,
contract,
detract,
distract,
extract,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin subtractus, perfect passive participle of subtrahō (“to draw from beneath; withdraw, remove”); from sub (“under”) + trahō (“to draw, pull, drag”).
Sample Sentences
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If you subtract the $100 for gas from the total cost, it was a fairly inexpensive trip.
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I could add and subtract and multiply and divide, but I entered the wilderness when words became equations. […] The axioms of arithmetic imply that when you expand (a + b)², for example, you get a² + 2ab + b² in the following way: (a + b)² is equal to (a + b)(a + b). Each term in one parentheses multiplies the terms in the other: a × a = a² ; a × b = ab; b × a = ab; b × b = b². Combining the terms, a² + ab + ab + b² = a² + 2ab + b². In a similar way, a² – b², a squared number subtracted from another squared number, called a difference of squares, becomes (a – b)(a + b), which becomes a² + ab – ab – b², which is a² – b². [2022 August 7, Alec Wilkinson, “Could learning algebra in my 60s make me smarter?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2023:]