éviter
French, verb/e.vi.te/
éviter is a French verb meaning “to avoid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Échapper, se soustraire à quelque chose de nuisible, de désagréable”.
What does éviter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to avoid
- 2
to dodge, to shun, to bypass
- 3
to avert
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Échapper, se soustraire à quelque chose de nuisible, de désagréable. 2. Tourner autour de son ancre au changement de vent ou de marée, en parlant d’un navire.
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 éviter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- évitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- évité participle past
- évite first-person indicative present
- évites indicative present second-person
- évitons first-person indicative plural
- évitez indicative plural present
- évitent indicative plural present
- évitais first-person imperfect indicative
- évitait imperfect indicative singular
- évitions first-person imperfect indicative
- évitiez imperfect indicative plural
- évitaient imperfect indicative plural
- évitai first-person historic indicative
- évitas historic indicative past
- évita historic indicative past
- évitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce éviter?
- /e.vi.te/
- \e.vi.te\
- [e.vi.ˈte]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to éviter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is éviter in French?
éviter appears 98 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).