esquiver
French, verb/ɛs.ki.ve/
esquiver is spelled E-S-Q-U-I-V-E-R (8 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esquiver is a French verb meaning “to dodge (a blow), duck” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Éviter adroitement”.
What does esquiver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dodge (a blow), duck
- 2
to evade, elude
- 3
to sidestep, to strafe
- 4
to slip away
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Éviter adroitement. 2. Faire une parade par éviter de faire quelque chose ou de subir un affrontement ou ses conséquences. 3. Se retirer sans rien dire et en évitant d’être aperçu, d’une compagnie, d’un lieu où l’on ne veut pas demeurer.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of esquiver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- esquivant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- esquivé participle past
- esquive first-person indicative present
- esquives indicative present second-person
- esquivons first-person indicative plural
- esquivez indicative plural present
- esquivent indicative plural present
- esquivais first-person imperfect indicative
- esquivait imperfect indicative singular
- esquivions first-person imperfect indicative
- esquiviez imperfect indicative plural
- esquivaient imperfect indicative plural
- esquivai first-person historic indicative
- esquivas historic indicative past
- esquiva historic indicative past
- esquivâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esquiver?
- /ɛs.ki.ve/
- \ɛs.ki.ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to esquiver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is esquiver in French?
esquiver appears 2.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).