Translation please

[Bugsy]

I'm stuck on the following (from the Declaration de Cession d'un Vehicle form)

déclare avoir *  cédé

 

                         cédé pour destruction

Thanks.

[Swissie]

I read it as meaning  ' given ' for destruction, rather than  'sold'. I did that with my dad's old car last year - nobody wanted to buy it, so I got local garage to take it away for breaking up.

[Bugsy]

Thanks Swissie, I understand the 'for destruction ' bit,  its the word cédé I don't understand.

[Swissie]

Céder = to give up                  a bit  like in English 'to cede'.

[Chancer]

Cédé is the past participle of the verb céder (to give up) meaning "given up" or  "gave up"

Editted.

Gary in case you think that I am rubbing it in again Swissies last post arrived whilst I was typing this one, I know that its paranoia but once bitten etc............

[Chancer]

Swissie, that is yet another English word that I was ignorant of until learning French

[Bugsy]

Thanks. Strange that its not in any of our dictionaries.

Got it.

[Swissie]

did you look up the infinitive with 'er'   céder? Surely it must be there.

[cooperlola]

You're probably more familiar with it in the context of "Cedez le Passage"! [:)]

[NormanH]

[quote user="Bugsy"]Thanks. Strange that its not in any of our dictionaries.

Got it.

[/quote]

If you looked it up  on google (language tools on the main google page)

you would find:

verb

1. break down
2. give way
3. cede
4. surrender
5. assign
6. hand
   over
7. yield
8. concede
9. knuckle under
10. transfer

I think 6 and 10 are probably the best translations in this case.

[Chancer]

I have just come back from the Festival International du Film Animalier where one of the films was about castors (beavers), in the dialogue I heard "leur barrage a cedé" so that was the first time I thought of Bugsy, the second was at the give way sign coming back! [;-)]

Whilst talking languages another thing I think that I heard was "La mere et les enfants se taisent dans l'abri", is se taiser also used to signify to be shut away somewhere (I suppose it must be to shut oneself away) as well as to tell someone to shut up or did my ears decieve me?

[Swissie]

se taiser  to be quiet

se tasser   to pile into

[Clair]

[quote user="Swissie"]se taiser  to be quiet

[/quote]

Do you mean se taire?

[NormanH]

[quote user="Chancer"]

I have just come back from the Festival International du Film Animalier where one of the films was about castors (beavers), in the dialogue I heard "leur barrage a cedé" so that was the first time I thought of Bugsy, the second was at the give way sign coming back! [;-)]

Whilst talking languages another thing I think that I heard was "La mere et les enfants se taisent dans l'abri", is se taiser also used to signify to be shut away somewhere (I suppose it must be to shut oneself away) as well as to tell someone to shut up or did my ears decieve me?

[/quote]

1) meaning 2 in my list above. 'given way'

2) I guess se tassaient ' settled down' for the second

[Chancer]

Thanks everyone, its amazing how my brain which is so so useless all the rest of the time can follow a dialogue in French and still store anomolies like the above for later dissection, yet I spend most of my working day looking for various tools that I have put down less than 2 minutes before (losing the sight of one eye aggravated this) or walking down four flights of stairs for something only to forget what it is by the time I get there [:(]

[Swissie]

De l'oeuf plein le visage - I can't believe I wrote THAT!

[5-element]

Chancer,

Are you sure you didn't hear "La mere et les enfants SE TERRENT (from "se terrer")dans l'abri?

(sorry about caps, not shouting, but can't find the italic or the bold here).

"se terrer" = se cacher, se mettre a l'abri

[Chancer]

Thats probably more likely although it did sound like se taisent, you know what its like, you have to keep up with the flow of conversation and follow the gist, easier of course because the dialogue was of the images being screened, but sometimes things just cry out to your subconscious mind; usually its when I have misheard a word and my brain says "it cant be that" but in this case it was "maybe it (se taire) can be used in that way also".

At least I have learned that it cant before I make a fool of myself saying "I have been shutting myself up all week" [:P]