esquivar
Portuguese, verb/is.kiˈva(ʁ)/
esquivar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to eschew, to shun” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desviar de si, com desprezo”.
What does esquivar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to eschew, to shun
- 2
to avoid (to keep away from)
- 3
to swerve (turn aside or deviate to avoid impact)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. desviar de si, com desprezo 2. evitar 3. defecar 4. desviar-se; eximir-se
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of esquivar
- esquivo first-person present singular
- esquivei first-person preterite singular
- esquivado participle past
- esquivares infinitive second-person singular
- esquivarmos first-person infinitive plural
- esquivardes infinitive plural second-person
- esquivarem infinitive plural third-person
- esquivando gerund
- esquivados masculine participle past
- esquivada feminine participle past
- esquivadas feminine participle past
- esquivas indicative present second-person
- esquiva indicative present singular
- esquivamos first-person indicative plural
- esquivais indicative plural present
- esquivam indicative plural present
- esquivava first-person imperfect indicative
- esquivavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esquivar?
- Brazil /is.kiˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.kiˈva(h)]
- Brazil /es.kiˈva(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to esquivar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is esquivar in Portuguese?
esquivar appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).