No. 2,932 in Catalan
evitat
"Evitat" means "avoided" in English.
In a sentence
Ahir vaig evitat una situació complicada.
Yesterday, I avoided a complicated situation.
The word 'evitat' is used as the past participle in Catalan to indicate the action of avoiding something in the past.
El problema es podria haver evitat.
The problem could have been avoided.
Here, 'evitat' is part of a passive sentence structure to signify an action that could have been prevented.
És essencial haver evitat errors en l'informe.
It is essential to have avoided errors in the report.
In this sentence, 'evitat' is used with 'haver' to denote an action that was completed to avoid errors.
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