No. 7,531 in French
procédez
"Proceed" or "go ahead."
In a sentence
Procédez à la vérification des documents avant de commencer.
Proceed with the verification of documents before starting.
Here, 'procédez' is used in an imperative form to direct someone to take a specific action of proceeding with document verification.
Ils procèdent toujours avec grande prudence.
They always proceed with great caution.
In this sentence, 'procèdent' (the third-person plural form of 'procédez') indicates continuous action, describing how the subjects tend to proceed cautiously.
Pour résoudre ce problème, procédez méthodiquement.
To solve this problem, proceed methodically.
In this instance, 'procédez' is used to suggest a manner of action, specifically proposing a procedural or systematic approach for the solution.
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