cèdes

Cèdes is the second-person singular present indicative form of the French verb céder, meaning you yield or you concede. It is used with the subject pronoun tu and appears in everyday informal speech. The infinitive céder comes from Latin concedere, and the verb belongs to the first-conjugation group (-er) with a stem that shows vowel alternations in the present tense to reflect pronunciation and historical spelling.

Conjugation and form: Je cède, tu cèdes, il cède, nous cédons, vous cédez, ils cèdent. The accent marks help distinguish imperfect and related forms: the acute accent in cède and the grave accent in cèdes indicate different vowel qualities and syllable shapes in the present tense, while keening differences in pronunciation arise from traditional orthography.

Usage: Cèdes expresses yielding, conceding, or transferring something, whether resistances under pressure, rights, or possessions. It can describe giving in to a temptation, agreeing to a demand, or handing over control. It often appears in contexts like negotiations, personal decisions, or legal transfers, and is commonly found in both spoken and written French.

Examples:

- Tu cèdes facilement à la pression.

- Il cède sa place au premier rang.

- Ils cèdent leurs droits sous certaines conditions.

Notes: Like other forms of céder, cèdes participates in standard negation with ne… pas (tu ne cèdes pas), and its usage contrasts with cède (il/elle cède) in a way that signals different subject and person within the sentence.