céder

See also:cederandcedër

French

Etymology

BorrowedfromLatincēdere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/se.de/

• Audio:

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• Homophone:CD

Verb

céder

1. toyield

   céder le passage―togive way(to otherroadusers)

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated likeespérer.It is a regular-erverb, 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 writtencéder-,reflecting the historic pronunciation/e/.In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be writtencèder-,reflecting the now common pronunciation/ɛ/,thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs likeleverandjeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation ofcéder(see alsoAppendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	céder
	compound	avoir+ past participle
present participleorgerund1	simple	cédant /se.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant+ past participle
past participle		cédé /se.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cède /sɛd/	cèdes /sɛd/	cède /sɛd/	cédons /se.dɔ̃/	cédez /se.de/	cèdent /sɛd/
	imperfect	cédais /se.dɛ/	cédais /se.dɛ/	cédait /se.dɛ/	cédions /se.djɔ̃/	cédiez /se.dje/	cédaient /se.dɛ/
	past historic2	cédai /se.de/	cédas /se.da/	céda /se.da/	cédâmes /se.dam/	cédâtes /se.dat/	cédèrent /se.dɛʁ/
	future	cèderaiorcéderai /sɛ.dʁe/or/se.dʁe/	cèderasorcéderas /sɛ.dʁa/or/se.dʁa/	cèderaorcédera /sɛ.dʁa/or/se.dʁa/	cèderonsorcéderons /sɛ.dʁɔ̃/or/se.dʁɔ̃/	cèderezorcéderez /sɛ.dʁe/or/se.dʁe/	cèderontorcéderont /sɛ.dʁɔ̃/or/se.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cèderaisorcéderais /sɛ.dʁɛ/or/se.dʁɛ/	cèderaisorcéderais /sɛ.dʁɛ/or/se.dʁɛ/	cèderaitorcéderait /sɛ.dʁɛ/or/se.dʁɛ/	cèderionsorcéderions /sɛ.də.ʁjɔ̃/or/se.də.ʁjɔ̃/	cèderiezorcéderiez /sɛ.də.ʁje/or/se.də.ʁje/	cèderaientorcéderaient /sɛ.dʁɛ/or/se.dʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative ofavoir+ past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative ofavoir+ past participle
	past anterior2	past historic ofavoir+ past participle
	future perfect	future ofavoir+ past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional ofavoir+ past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	cède /sɛd/	cèdes /sɛd/	cède /sɛd/	cédions /se.djɔ̃/	cédiez /se.dje/	cèdent /sɛd/
	imperfect2	cédasse /se.das/	cédasses /se.das/	cédât /se.da/	cédassions /se.da.sjɔ̃/	cédassiez /se.da.sje/	cédassent /se.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive ofavoir+ past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive ofavoir+ past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cède /sɛd/	—	cédons /se.dɔ̃/	cédez /se.de/	—
compound		—	simple imperative ofavoir+ past participle	—	simple imperative ofavoir+ past participle	simple imperative ofavoir+ past participle	—
1The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen.
2In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995],Master the Basics: French,pp.77,78,79,81).

Derived terms

• céder la parole
• céder le pas
• cédez-le-passage

Related terms

• cession
• décéder

References

• “céder”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Anagrams

• cèdre