retook
取り返した
解説 Definition
retook は retake（再び取る、取り返す、再受験する）の過去形です。場所や物を取り戻した場合、または試験や写真などをやり直した場合に使われます。
Retook is the past tense of retake. It describes taking back a position or possession, taking an examination again, or making another version of a photograph or recording because the earlier attempt was unsatisfactory.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
retake「再び取る・取り返す・やり直す」の不規則な過去形です。take→took と同じく、語幹の母音が /eɪ/ から /ʊ/ に変わり、retake /ˌriːˈteɪk/ が retook /ˌriːˈtʊk/ になります。retook the lead はリードを奪い返した、retook an exam は再受験した、retook a photo は撮り直した、と目的語ごと覚えましょう。
Build retook from retake, but remember that its past tense follows the irregular pattern take–took rather than adding -ed. The vowel changes from /eɪ/ in /ˌriːˈteɪk/ to /ʊ/ in /ˌriːˈtʊk/. The prefix re- supplies the idea of “again” or “back.” Learn it through its objects: a team retook the lead, a student retook an exam, and a photographer retook a portrait. In every case, something was taken again, recovered, or attempted a second time in the past.
例文
The team retook the lead in the final minute.
そのチームは最後の1分でリードを取り返しました。
She retook the exam after studying for three more months.
彼女はさらに3か月勉強した後、その試験を再受験しました。
The photographer retook the portrait because the first image was blurred.
最初の写真がぼやけていたため、写真家はポートレートを撮り直しました。
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retook の語源・成り立ち Etymology
retook は retake の過去形で、re-「再び」と take から成ります。re- はラテン語由来、take は古ノルド語 taka「つかむ・取る」にさかのぼり、「もう一度取る」から「取り返す」の意味になりました。関連語は retake, undertake。
Retook is the irregular past tense of retake, a compound of re-, meaning “again” or “back,” and take. The prefix entered English through Latin and French formations, while take comes from Old Norse taka, “to take or grasp.” Its form follows the inherited English past-tense change seen in take and took: retake becomes retook, with no additional past-tense suffix.
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