Présent
What is happening now, habits, and general truths.
- je cède
- tu cèdes
- il / elle / on cède
- nous cédons
- vous cédez
- ils / elles cèdent
to give in
1st group, regular -er verb, auxiliary avoir, past participle cédé.
Conjugated like posséder, accéder, succéder, précéder, excéder, procéder
Underlined: the stem is not the infinitive’s.
Enough to talk about the present, the past, and the future.
What is happening now, habits, and general truths.
The everyday past for a finished action.
The spoken future for plans and near events.
Past habits, descriptions, and ongoing background.
Something that has just happened: venir de plus the infinitive.
What will happen later, including promises and predictions.
Polite requests, wishes, and hypotheses: “would …”.
Orders, advice, and instructions. The subject in parentheses is not spoken.
A past action completed before another past action.
An action finished before a future moment: “will have …”.
Regrets and hypotheses that never happened: “would have …”.
After necessity, wishes, emotion, doubt, or conjunctions like bien que.
Subjunctive for an action already completed.
The written narrative past: novels, history, and fairy tales.
A literary action completed immediately before another past action.
Literary subjunctive used inside past-tense narration.
Literary subjunctive for an action completed before another.
Literary variant of the past conditional, matching the pluperfect subjunctive.