Grammatical class

Verb

contourner

to circumvent, to bypass, to skirt around

Details

Syllables

con-tour-ner

Phonetics

kɔ̃.tuʁ.ne

Grammatical class

Verb

Freq. (books)

8359

Freq. (movies)

7891

Freq. (news)

8132

Sentences

On va contourner le centre-ville.

We'll bypass the city centre.

A1

Il a essayé de contourner le sujet.

He attempted to skirt around the question.

B1

Il te faudra trouver une astuce pour contourner ce problème.

You'll have to find a trick to circumvent that issue.

B1

Heureusement, il existe des techniques qui permettent de contourner ce problème.

Fortunately, there are some techniques you can use to work around this issue.

B2

Les usuriers recourent à toutes sortes d'astuces pour contourner les lois sur l'usure.

Loan sharks pull all sorts of tricks to skirt usury laws.

B2