fazer rodeios
Portuguese, verb
fazer rodeios is a Portuguese verb meaning “to beat around the bush (to treat a topic but omit its main points)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does fazer rodeios mean in English?
verb
- 1
to beat around the bush (to treat a topic but omit its main points)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. falar com rodeios: não ir direto ao assunto: dizer indiretamente o que se deseja, perdendo tempo entrando em detalhes, sem ir direto ao ponto
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 fazer rodeios
- faço rodeios first-person present singular
- fiz rodeios first-person preterite singular
- feito rodeios participle past
- fazeres rodeios infinitive second-person singular
- fazermos rodeios first-person infinitive plural
- fazerdes rodeios infinitive plural second-person
- fazerem rodeios infinitive plural third-person
- fazendo rodeios gerund
- feitos rodeios masculine participle past
- feita rodeios feminine participle past
- feitas rodeios feminine participle past
- fazes rodeios indicative present second-person
- faz rodeios indicative present singular
- fazemos rodeios first-person indicative plural
- fazeis rodeios indicative plural present
- fazem rodeios indicative plural present
- fazia rodeios first-person imperfect indicative
- fazias rodeios imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).