céder
French, verb/se.de/
céder is spelled C-É-D-E-R (5 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written French, the 5,851st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Céder is a French verb meaning “to yield” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Laisser, abandonner une chose à quelqu’un”.
What does céder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to yield
céder le passage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Laisser, abandonner une chose à quelqu’un. 2. Transférer la propriété d'une chose, à une autre personne, lui en donner la propriété. 3. Ne pouvoir résister ou ne plus résister à l’action de telle ou telle force, en parlant des choses matérielles. 4. Se soumettre, ne plus résister, accepter, tant au sens physique qu’au sens moral.
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 céder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cédant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cédé participle past
- cède first-person indicative present
- cèdes indicative present second-person
- cédons first-person indicative plural
- cédez indicative plural present
- cèdent indicative plural present
- cédais first-person imperfect indicative
- cédait imperfect indicative singular
- cédions first-person imperfect indicative
- cédiez imperfect indicative plural
- cédaient imperfect indicative plural
- cédai first-person historic indicative
- cédas historic indicative past
- céda historic indicative past
- cédâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce céder?
- /se.de/
- \se.de\
- [ce.de]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to céder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is céder in French?
céder appears 12 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).