avtrekkes

Avtrekkes is the present passive form of the Norwegian verb avtrekke, which means to withdraw, retract, or pull away. The prefix av- signals removal or separation, while trekke means to pull. In modern Norwegian, avtrekke is relatively formal, and avtrekkes appears mainly in formal, legal, or technical prose, or in historical texts.

The word covers both physical withdrawal (an object or person moving away) and figurative withdrawal (retracting a claim, a policy, or a directive). Because it is a passive construction, avtrekkes often implies that the withdrawal is carried out by an agent or by an institution, even if the agent is not explicitly stated in the sentence. In everyday speech, speakers more commonly use trekket tilbake or trekke seg in corresponding contexts.

Usage and register: Avtrekkes tends to be found in official documents, administrative language, or formal reporting. In common language, speakers typically prefer synonyms or more common phrases such as trekke tilbake, trekke seg, eller oppheve, depending on the exact sense of withdrawal or reversal.

Examples of context: legal decisions being withdrawn, policies being retracted, or a statement being retractively withdrawn in formal writing. Because avtrekke is relatively formal, its use may sound archaic or specialized outside these registers.

See also: trekke tilbake, trekke seg, tilbaketrekning, oppheve. These related expressions cover similar notions of withdrawing, retracting, or reversing actions in Norwegian.