evitabas

Evitabas is a Latin verb form, specifically the second-person singular imperfect indicative active of the verb evitare, meaning “to avoid.” The imperfect in Latin expresses past actions that were ongoing, habitual, or not yet completed. The form evitabas is built from the present stem evit- plus the imperfect ending -abas, yielding the second-person singular: you were avoiding.

The full imperfect paradigm for evitare includes: evitabam (1st person singular), evitabas (2nd person singular), evitabat (3rd person singular), evitabamus (1st person plural), evitabatis (2nd person plural), evitabant (3rd person plural). For contrast, the present indicative forms are evito, evitas, evitat, evitamus, evitatis, evitant.

In usage, evitabas often describes past situations in which the subject repeatedly or continuously avoided something. It can provide background detail in narrative or express habitual past behavior. Translations commonly render it as “you were avoiding” or “you used to avoid.”

Etymology notes: evitare is a regular 1st-conjugation Latin verb meaning “to avoid.” The form evitabas appears in classical Latin texts and is studied as part of Latin grammar and conjugation patterns. The spelling also resembles the modern Spanish imperfect evitar, where evitabas has the same meaning in that language, illustrating the shared Latin root across Romance languages.