céder

See also ceder

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cēdere, present active infinitive of cēdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /se.de/

• céder

  (file)

Verb

céder

1. to yield
2. to give way

Conjugation

• This verb is conjugated like espérer. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’.
• One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written céder-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written cèder-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

   Conjugation of céder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		céder			avoir cédé
gerund		en cédant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		cédant
past participle		cédé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	cède	cèdes	cède	cédons	cédez	cèdent
	imperfect	cédais	cédais	cédait	cédions	cédiez	cédaient
	past historic1	cédai	cédas	céda	cédâmes	cédâtes	cédèrent
	future	cèderai or céderai	cèderas or céderas	cèdera or cédera	cèderons or céderons	cèderez or céderez	cèderont or céderont
	conditional	cèderais or céderais	cèderais or céderais	cèderait or céderait	cèderions or céderions	cèderiez or céderiez	cèderaient or céderaient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	cède	cèdes	cède	cédions	cédiez	cèdent
	imperfect1	cédasse	cédasses	cédât	cédassions	cédassiez	cédassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	cède	—	cédons	cédez	—
1literary tenses

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