concevez

Concevez is a French verb form that appears in the present tense of concevoir, a verb meaning to conceive, design, or imagine. In everyday usage, concevez corresponds to the second-person plural present indicative—“you design” or “you are designing” when addressing multiple people or a formal group. It also functions as the present imperative in the vous form, used to issue a command or request to someone you are addressing with vous: Concevez un plan.

Etymology and related forms: Concevoir comes from Old French conceivre, which derives from Latin concipere, built from con- (together) and capere (to take). The root concept connects the acts of forming ideas, plans, or products through mental conception and subsequent creation. The noun form is conception, and related occupational terms include concepteur (designer) and concepteur-rédacteur (creative professional).

Usage and examples: Concevez is common in professional and instructional contexts, especially in design, engineering, architecture, and project planning. Examples include: Concevez un prototype innovant pour tester ses performances. (Design an innovative prototype to test its performance.) Vous concevez actuellement une solution pour améliorer l’efficacité. (You are currently designing a solution to improve efficiency.) The form is distinct from conceve amongst other tenses; the alternative vous forms in other tenses use different spellings, such as vous conceviez in the imperfect subjonctive or vous concevrez in the future simple.

See also: Concevoir, conception, concepteur. These terms share the same root and relate to the processes of imagining, planning, and creating new products, systems, or ideas.