procurer
French, verb/pʁɔ.ky.ʁe/
procurer is spelled P-R-O-C-U-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears 9.3 times per million words in written French, the 7,048th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Procurer is a French verb meaning “to get, obtain (for someone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire obtenir à une personne quelque avantage par son crédit, par ses soins”.
What does procurer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to get, obtain (for someone)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire obtenir à une personne quelque avantage par son crédit, par ses soins. 2. Faire obtenir à une personne ce dont elle a besoin ou ce qui lui est agréable. 3. Employer ses soins, ses efforts pour qu’une chose soit. 4. Donner ses soins à l’édition d’un livre.
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 procurer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- procurant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- procuré participle past
- procure first-person indicative present
- procures indicative present second-person
- procurons first-person indicative plural
- procurez indicative plural present
- procurent indicative plural present
- procurais first-person imperfect indicative
- procurait imperfect indicative singular
- procurions first-person imperfect indicative
- procuriez imperfect indicative plural
- procuraient imperfect indicative plural
- procurai first-person historic indicative
- procuras historic indicative past
- procura historic indicative past
- procurâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce procurer?
- /pʁɔ.ky.ʁe/
- \pʁɔ.ky.ʁe\
- [pʁɔ.ky.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to procurer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is procurer in French?
procurer appears 9.3 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).