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dédier

French, verb/de.dje/

dédier is a French verb meaning “to dedicate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Consacrer au culte divin”.

What does dédier mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to dedicate

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Consacrer au culte divin. 2. Mettre sous l’invocation d’un saint. 3. Mettre un livre, un ouvrage, sous le patronage de quelqu’un par une épître ou par une inscription imprimée à la tête du livre. 4. Consacrer.

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 dédier

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • dédiant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • dédié participle past
  • dédie first-person indicative present
  • dédies indicative present second-person
  • dédions first-person indicative plural
  • dédiez indicative plural present
  • dédient indicative plural present
  • dédiais first-person imperfect indicative
  • dédiait imperfect indicative singular
  • dédiions first-person imperfect indicative
  • dédiiez imperfect indicative plural
  • dédiaient imperfect indicative plural
  • dédiai first-person historic indicative
  • dédias historic indicative past
  • dédia historic indicative past
  • dédiâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce dédier?

  • /de.dje/
  • \de.dje\
  • [de.dje]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to dédier

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is dédier in French?

dédier appears 1.0 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).