procéder
French, verb/pʁɔ.se.de/
procéder is a French verb meaning “proceed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Provenir, tirer son origine”.
What does procéder mean in English?
verb
- 1
proceed
- 2
behave
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Provenir, tirer son origine. 2. Agir, faire, exécuter un travail, conduire une opération. 3. Se comporter d’une certaine manière envers les autres. 4. Agir judiciairement, faire des actes, des poursuites, des instructions dans un procès.
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 procéder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- procédant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- procédé participle past
- procède first-person indicative present
- procèdes indicative present second-person
- procédons first-person indicative plural
- procédez indicative plural present
- procèdent indicative plural present
- procédais first-person imperfect indicative
- procédait imperfect indicative singular
- procédions first-person imperfect indicative
- procédiez imperfect indicative plural
- procédaient imperfect indicative plural
- procédai first-person historic indicative
- procédas historic indicative past
- procéda historic indicative past
- procédâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce procéder?
- /pʁɔ.se.de/
- \pʁɔ.se.de\
- [pʁɔ.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 procéder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is procéder in French?
procéder appears 17 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).