approcher
French, verb/a.pʁɔ.ʃe/
approcher is spelled A-P-P-R-O-C-H-E-R (9 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,181st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Approcher is a French verb meaning “to approach, to come close to, to move towards” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre proche, mettre près”.
What does approcher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to approach, to come close to, to move towards
Pourquoi es-tu si loin? Approche.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre proche, mettre près. 2. Faire voir comme plus proche. 3. Admettre dans sa familiarité, dans sa proximité. 4. Se placer, se trouver auprès de quelqu’un.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of approcher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- approchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- approché participle past
- approche first-person indicative present
- approches indicative present second-person
- approchons first-person indicative plural
- approchez indicative plural present
- approchent indicative plural present
- approchais first-person imperfect indicative
- approchait imperfect indicative singular
- approchions first-person imperfect indicative
- approchiez imperfect indicative plural
- approchaient imperfect indicative plural
- approchai first-person historic indicative
- approchas historic indicative past
- approcha historic indicative past
- approchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce approcher?
- /a.pʁɔ.ʃe/
- \a.pʁɔ.ʃe\
- [a.pʁɔ.ʃe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to approcher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is approcher in French?
approcher appears 11 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).