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prélever

prélever

French

Verb

prélever

  1. (transitive) to take (sur from)
  2. (transitive, medicine) to take (blood), remove (an organ)
  3. (transitive) to take out, withdraw (money)
  4. (transitive) to deduct, to subtract (numbers, or percentages)

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il prélève rather than *il préleve. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.