No. 5,057 in Spanish
evitado
Avoided.
In a sentence
He evitado comer mucho antes de nadar.
I have avoided eating a lot before swimming.
In this sentence, "evitado" is used as the past participle of the verb "evitar" to form the present perfect tense, indicating an action recently completed or relevant to the present.
La situación fue evitada gracias a su intervención.
The situation was avoided thanks to his intervention.
Here, "evitado" is used in the passive voice, paired with the verb "ser" in the past tense to indicate that the situation was actively avoided by someone's action.
Me pregunto si hubiera evitado el desastre si hubiera tomado otra decisión.
I wonder if I would have avoided the disaster if I had made a different decision.
In this context, "evitado" appears in a subjunctive past perfect conditional clause, discussing a hypothetical outcome that could have occurred under different circumstances.
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