obséder
French, verb/ɔp.se.de/
obséder is spelled O-B-S-É-D-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 88,451st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obséder is a French verb meaning “to obsess” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Assiéger quelqu’un, l’entourer pour l'isoler des autres, poursuivre de ses ardeurs”.
What does obséder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to obsess
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Assiéger quelqu’un, l’entourer pour l'isoler des autres, poursuivre de ses ardeurs. 2. Importuner, excéder quelqu’un par ses assiduités, par ses démarches. 3. Tourmenter d’une manière persistante. 4. Être à charge, tourmenter, fatiguer.
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 obséder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- obsédant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- obsédé participle past
- obsède first-person indicative present
- obsèdes indicative present second-person
- obsédons first-person indicative plural
- obsédez indicative plural present
- obsèdent indicative plural present
- obsédais first-person imperfect indicative
- obsédait imperfect indicative singular
- obsédions first-person imperfect indicative
- obsédiez imperfect indicative plural
- obsédaient imperfect indicative plural
- obsédai first-person historic indicative
- obsédas historic indicative past
- obséda historic indicative past
- obsédâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce obséder?
- /ɔp.se.de/
- \ɔp.se.de\
- [ɔp.se.de]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to obséder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is obséder in French?
obséder appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).