Treure means “to remove, take out,” with extensions such as “withdraw money,” “get a grade,” “draw a conclusion” and “make a profit.” It is one of the clearest cases where a single written infinitive does not reveal every stem: learn trec/trac – traiem – treia – traguí – trauré – tregui – tret. Notice especially that the future is trauré, not treuré, and the gerund is traient, not treguent.
The IEC recognizes both treure and traure. This page uses treure as the Central Catalan citation form while displaying the standard a-variants that are integral to Valencian and also accepted more broadly. The verb is not defective and never takes an incoative -eix-.
Nonfinite forms
| Form | Catalan | English guide |
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | treure / traure | to remove / take out |
| Perfect infinitive | haver tret | to have removed |
| Gerund | traient | removing / taking out |
| Perfect gerund | havent tret | having removed |
| Participle | tret; treta, trets, tretes | removed / taken out |
The participle is irregular: tret, never treut or tragut. After haver it stays invariable: les caixes que hem tret. As an adjective or passive participle it agrees: una fotografia treta de l'arxiu. The form tret is also a noun (“shot,” “feature”) and appears in the prepositional expression tret de “except for”; those are separate lexical uses.
Indicative: simple and periphrastic tenses
| Tense | jo | tu | ell / ella / vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres | ells / elles / vostès |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present | trec / trac | treus / traus | treu / trau | traiem | traieu | treuen / trauen |
| Imperfect | treia | treies | treia | trèiem | trèieu | treien |
| Periphrastic past | vaig treure | vas treure | va treure | vam treure | vau treure | van treure |
| Simple past | traguí | tragueres | tragué | traguérem | traguéreu | tragueren |
| Future | trauré | trauràs | traurà | traurem | traureu | trauran |
| Conditional | trauria | trauries | trauria | trauríem | trauríeu | traurien |
The e- and a-forms in the present are both standard. A learner should be consistent with the chosen regional model, not treat one series as careless pronunciation. (Regional: Valencian) traure, trac, traus, trau, trauen are normal standard forms; traiem/traieu, treia and the tragu-/traur- families show that no variety simply keeps one vowel everywhere.
Cada vespre trec les bicicletes del pati perquè no es mullin.
Every evening I take the bicycles out of the courtyard so they don't get wet.
Quan compartíem pis, trèiem les escombraries per torns.
When we shared a flat, we took the rubbish out in turns.
Aquest matí he tret diners del caixer abans d'anar al mercat.
This morning I withdrew money from the cash machine before going to the market.
The periphrastic past is neutral conversational Catalan. The synthetic past is standard but often (formal/literary) in Central usage; its spoken vitality varies across regions.
Compound tenses and subjunctive
| Indicative tense | jo | tu | ell / ella / vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres | ells / elles / vostès |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present perfect | he tret | has tret | ha tret | hem tret | heu tret | han tret |
| Pluperfect | havia tret | havies tret | havia tret | havíem tret | havíeu tret | havien tret |
| Past anterior | haguí tret | hagueres tret | hagué tret | haguérem tret | haguéreu tret | hagueren tret |
| Future perfect | hauré tret | hauràs tret | haurà tret | haurem tret | haureu tret | hauran tret |
| Conditional perfect | hauria tret | hauries tret | hauria tret | hauríem tret | hauríeu tret | haurien tret |
| Subjunctive tense | jo | tu | ell / ella / vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres | ells / elles / vostès |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present | tregui | treguis | tregui | traguem | tragueu | treguin |
| Imperfect | tragués | traguessis | tragués | traguéssim | traguéssiu | traguessin |
| Present perfect | hagi tret | hagis tret | hagi tret | hàgim tret | hàgiu tret | hagin tret |
| Pluperfect | hagués tret | haguessis tret | hagués tret | haguéssim tret | haguéssiu tret | haguessin tret |
Central present subjunctive alternates tregui- in the singular and third-person plural with traguem/tragueu. (Regional: Valencian) uses traga, tragues, traga, traguem, tragueu, traguen. Northwestern standard also admits tragui beside tregui. The imperfect in -ra (traguera, tragueres...) is standard and especially alive in Valencian.
La dentista recomana que et treguis el pírcing abans de la radiografia.
The dentist recommends that you take out your piercing before the X-ray.
Si haguéssiu tret les entrades abans, ara no hauríeu de fer cua.
If you had got the tickets earlier, you wouldn't have to queue now.
These additional rows complete the productive system; the subjunctive periphrases are (regional/formal) and uncommon in ordinary Central speech.
| Periphrastic tense | jo | tu | ell / ella / vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres | ells / elles / vostès |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative past anterior | vaig haver tret | vas haver tret | va haver tret | vam haver tret | vau haver tret | van haver tret |
| Subjunctive past | vagi treure | vagis treure | vagi treure | vàgim treure | vàgiu treure | vagin treure |
| Subjunctive past anterior | vagi haver tret | vagis haver tret | vagi haver tret | vàgim haver tret | vàgiu haver tret | vagin haver tret |
Imperative and clitic placement
| Addressee | Affirmative | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| tu | treu / trau | no treguis |
| vostè | tregui | no tregui |
| nosaltres | traguem | no traguem |
| vosaltres | traieu | no tragueu |
| vostès | treguin | no treguin |
Direct-object pronouns are extremely frequent: treu-lo, traieu-les. With pronominal treure's “take off/remove from oneself,” the reflexive pronoun combines with the object: treu-te-la. Negation puts the cluster before the verb: no te la treguis. A de-source or partitive quantity can become the pronoun en: Treu dos llibres de la caixa → Treu-ne dos.
Treu-te l'abric, que aquí dins fa molta calor.
Take off your coat; it's very warm in here.
No te les treguis encara: necessitaràs les botes per travessar el fang.
Don't take them off yet; you'll need the boots to cross the mud.
D'aquell calaix, traieu-ne només les carpetes blaves.
From that drawer, take out only the blue folders.
Objects, sources, and extended meanings
The removed entity is a direct object; its source is commonly introduced by de: treure el pa del forn. Pronominal treure's is required when the subject removes clothing or an object from themself in the ordinary reflexive construction. Plain treure remains transitive in Li vaig treure una estella del dit, where li marks the affected person.
Frequent extensions include treure diners, treure una bona nota, treure una conclusió, treure profit de, treure importància a and treure de polleguera. Their objects are not literally moved, but the same semantic core—bringing something out or away—remains visible.
De l'enquesta no podem treure cap conclusió fiable perquè la mostra és massa petita.
We can't draw any reliable conclusion from the survey because the sample is too small.
L'equip ha sabut treure profit de les dades sense simplificar el problema.
The team has managed to benefit from the data without oversimplifying the problem.
Common Mistakes
❌ Demà treuré tots els mobles del passadís.
Incorrect—the standard future stem is traur-, even when the citation form is treure.
✅ Demà trauré tots els mobles del passadís.
Tomorrow I'll remove all the furniture from the corridor.
❌ Ja hem treut les còpies que faltaven.
Incorrect—the irregular participle is tret.
✅ Ja hem tret les còpies que faltaven.
We've already made the missing copies.
❌ Estan treguent les taules al carrer.
Incorrect—the gerund is traient, not treguent.
✅ Estan traient les taules al carrer.
They're taking the tables out into the street.
❌ No treu-te les ulleres dins del laboratori.
Incorrect—a negative command uses the subjunctive and preverbal pronouns.
✅ No et treguis les ulleres dins del laboratori.
Don't take off your glasses inside the laboratory.
❌ Hem tret molt profit a aquesta formació.
Incorrect in the standard collocation—the source of benefit is introduced by de.
✅ Hem tret molt profit d'aquesta formació.
We've got a lot out of this training course.
Key Takeaways
Retain trec/trac, traiem, treia, traguí, trauré, tregui, and tret. Respect the standard regional treure/traure alternatives without mixing them randomly, use traient and irregular tret, and preserve the pronouns in treure's and clusters such as treu-te-la.
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