percevoir
French, verb/pɛʁ.sə.vwaʁ/
percevoir is spelled P-E-R-C-E-V-O-I-R (9 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written French, the 10,655th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Percevoir is a French verb meaning “to perceive, to make out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Recevoir, recueillir certaines choses, comme les revenus d’une propriété, des droits, des impôts, etc”.
What does percevoir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to perceive, to make out
- 2
to perceive (understand)
- 3
to collect (e.g. taxes, transit fares)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Recevoir, recueillir certaines choses, comme les revenus d’une propriété, des droits, des impôts, etc. 2. Prendre connaissance des objets qui ont fait impression sur les sens et en concevoir l’idée.
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 percevoir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- percevant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- perçu participle past
- perçois first-person indicative present
- perçoit indicative present singular
- percevons first-person indicative plural
- percevez indicative plural present
- perçoivent indicative plural present
- percevais first-person imperfect indicative
- percevait imperfect indicative singular
- percevions first-person imperfect indicative
- perceviez imperfect indicative plural
- percevaient imperfect indicative plural
- perçus first-person historic indicative
- perçut historic indicative past
- perçûmes first-person historic indicative
- perçûtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce percevoir?
- /pɛʁ.sə.vwaʁ/
- \pɛʁ.sə.vwaʁ\
- [pɛʁ.sə.vwaʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to percevoir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is percevoir in French?
percevoir appears 5.4 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).