Grammatical class

Verb

cesser

to cease; to stop

Details

Syllables

ces-ser

Phonetics

se.se

Grammatical class

Verb

Freq. (books)

2566

Freq. (movies)

3097

Freq. (news)

4466

Sentences

Je dois cesser.

I have to stop.

A1

Tu dois cesser.

You have to stop.

A1

Vas-tu enfin cesser ?

Will you stop it already!

A1

Tu dois cesser de fumer.

You must stop smoking.

A1

Je lui ai dit de cesser.

I told him to stop.

A2

Elle lui a dit de cesser.

She told him to stop.

A2

Tobias a dit à son berger allemand de cesser d'aboyer.

Tobias told his German Shepherd to stop barking.

B1

Il nous faut faire notre possible pour faire cesser la violence.

We must do what we can to stop the violence.

B1

Aucun étudiant ou enseignant ne devrait jamais cesser d'apprendre.

Neither students nor teachers should ever stop learning.

B1

J'ai demandé à Keiko de cesser d'utiliser les autres pour ses propres fins.

I urged Keiko to stop using people for her own convenience.

B1

Cessez de blasphémer, vile créature ! Apprenez, ignorante, que saint Prétextat était archevêque de Rouen au VIᵉ siècle, et grand ami de Grégoire de Tours, qui était un homme très bien, dont vous n’avez naturellement jamais entendu parler.

Stop blaspheming, you vile creature! You’d better learn, ignorant woman, that Saint Praetextatus was Archbishop of Rouen in the 6ᵗʰ century, and a friend of Gregory of Tours, who was a very good man, which you, unsurprisingly, never heard of.

C2

Il me fallut cesser.

I had to stop.

C2