evitar

A2Rank #1238

to avoid, to bypass, to evade, to circumvent, to dodge, to shun, to eschew (to steer clear of)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#1238 of 5,000

Conjugate evitar - all tenses →

No puedo evitar pensar en lo que podría haber sido si yo simplemente hubiera tomado el riesgo.

I can't help but wonder what could have been if I had just taken the risk.

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"evitar" in example sentences

"evitar" appears in 182 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 33 spellings (its conjugated forms). Here are 3 of them.

¿Por qué me evitas?

Why are you avoiding me?

Tatoeba #10189213

Él me evita.

He avoids me.

Tatoeba #3272929

Yo no sé por qué me evitaron.

I don't know why they avoided me.

Tatoeba #13116943

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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