Quítele (en. Take it off)

/ˈkitɛle/

Meaning & Definition

EnglishSpanish

verb

Remove or take something from a place.

Dust the table before dinner.

Quítale el polvo a la mesa antes de cenar.

Make someone stop having something.

Take away the phone from him while he studies.

Quítale el teléfono mientras estudia.

Take or remove something from sight.

Remove that ugly object from the living room.

Quítale ese objeto feo de la sala.

It derives from the combination of the pronoun 'tú' in the form of 'te' and the verb 'quitar'.

take off his head

Expression used to ask someone to move out of the way.

quítele la cabeza

take away the fear

Asking someone not to be afraid of a situation.

quítele el miedo

reduce the noise

Asking for the noise to be reduced in a place.

quítele el ruido

quitar

To eliminate something from a place.

quitar

remove

To take something that is in a place.

remover

take out

To extract something from a place.

sacar

Get rid of a problem.

If the situation gets complicated, just take him off.

Si la situación se complica, solo quítale de encima.

To push someone away.

She always says we should take the fuss out of things.

Ella siempre dice que hay que quitarle el rollo a las cosas.