procedeerd

Procedeerd is a Dutch word-form linked to the verb procederen, which means to initiate or pursue legal action or litigation. The form procedeerd itself is not typically used as the lemma in standard Dutch; it appears as the stem within the past participle geprocedeerd, which denotes having pursued legal action in the past. The infinitive procederen and its conjugated forms handle tense and aspect in regular Dutch ways, while the past participle is formed with the prefix ge- and the ending -d, yielding geprocedeerd.

Morphology and usage

Procedeerd functions mainly as a component of compound tenses rather than as an independently listed form. In legal and administrative prose, the discussion of litigation often relies on procederen (to sue) and geprocedeerd (having sued). The bare stem procedeerd thus appears most often in linguistic analyses or in reference to the participle form, rather than in everyday usage as a standalone verb form.

Etymology

Procederen derives from a combination of Dutch verb roots with the -eren infinitive ending, historically linked to the broader concept of proceeding or pursuing in legal or formal processes. The prefix ge- in geprocedeerd marks the perfective aspect, forming the past participle used with auxiliary verbs to express completed actions.

See also

Procederen, geprocedeerd, procedure, rechtspraak, legal procedure.

Notes

Procedeerd is not commonly used as an independent dictionary form in modern Dutch; it is mainly encountered as part of the past participle geprocedeerd or in linguistic descriptions of the verb’s morphology.