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evita
to avoid /e.viˈta/
verb#2381 most common
Also: to evade, to steer clear of
Example sentences
Evit cafeaua seara.
I avoid coffee in the evening.
Trebuie să evităm traficul de dimineață.
We must avoid the morning traffic.
A evitat întrebarea cu multă abilitate.
He avoided the question skillfully.
Dacă am fi plecat mai devreme, am fi evitat aglomerația.
If we had left earlier, we would have avoided the crowd.
Pentru a evita orice neînțelegere, am preferat să clarific totul de la început.
To avoid any misunderstanding, I preferred to clarify everything from the start.
Politicianul a reușit să evite subiectul cu o dexteritate retorică demnă de invidiat, eludând fiecare întrebare incomodă.
The politician managed to avoid the subject with an enviable rhetorical dexterity, dodging every uncomfortable question.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | evit | evitai | voi evita |
| 2sg | eviți | evitași | vei evita |
| 3sg | evită | evită | va evita |
| 1pl | evităm | evitarăm | vom evita |
| 2pl | evitați | evitarăți | veți evita |
| 3pl | evită | evitară | vor evita |
Word family
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "evita" from French "éviter" during the 19th-century wave of Latin-Romance modernization of the language. The French word itself descends from Latin "evitare," a compound of "ex-" (out, away) and "vitare" (to shun, avoid). The word entered Romanian alongside many other French-mediated neologisms that replaced or supplemented older Slavic-derived vocabulary.
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