treure

Treure is a Catalan verb meaning to take out, remove, or extract something from another place or from a container. It is also used in broader senses to obtain something, derive information, or draw conclusions from a situation. In everyday Catalan, treure covers both physical removal (for example, taking something from a drawer or pulling a tooth) and figurative acts such as drawing a conclusion or obtaining profit.

As a verb, treure is irregular and belongs to the -re conjugation class. In the present indicative, its forms are trec, treus, treu, traiem, traieu, treuen. The past participle is tret, used with the auxiliary haver to form compound tenses (for example, he tret la superfície de la taula). Other tenses and moods follow standard Catalan patterns, with variations across dialects.

Treure is widely used in literal contexts—removing, extracting, or lifting something from its place—and in figurative contexts, such as treure una conclusió (to draw a conclusion), treure profit (to make a profit), or treure un premi (to win a prize). It also appears in expressions like treure’s un cap al vent (to pop one’s head out) and treure sang de cada poro in more literary uses, though the latter is less common in everyday speech.

Regional usage is consistent across Catalan-speaking areas (Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands), though some contexts prefer synonyms such as extreure for more technical or formal “extract” meanings. Treure coexists with related verbs and phrases that denote removal, extraction, or gain, contributing to its versatility in both concrete and abstract discourse.