Extrajimos

Extrajimos is the first-person plural preterite form of the Spanish verb extraer. It translates as "we extracted" or "we drew out" and is used to describe a completed action in the past in which something was removed or obtained from a source, such as minerals, liquids, data, or information.

Origin and conjugation: The verb extraer comes from Latin extrahere. In the preterite tense, the forms are: yo extraje, tú extrajiste, él extrajo, nosotros extrajimos, vosotros extrajisteis, ellos extrajeron. The form extrajimos is the regular nosotros form, but the verb belongs to a stem-changing group for other persons where the stem shows a j in the preterite, as in extrajeron. The ellos form ends with -eron rather than -ieron, a pattern shared by many -er verbs with a j in the stem.

Usage: Extrajimos appears in narrative or formal writing to report past extraction actions. It is common in fields such as geology, archaeology, forensic science, or data analysis when describing the act of taking out samples, minerals, or information. Examples: "Durante la exploración, extrajimos muestras de roca" and "En el informe, extrajimos información de la base de datos para el análisis."

See also: extraer, extracción.