We must concede that we committed an error.
Source: tatoeba (20861)
Concede
//kənˈsiːd//
Synonyms for "concede" (85 found)
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1 entriesderived
6 entrieshas context
2 entriesmanner of
4 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
124 translations across 28 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- συγχωρέω verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
Armenian
2 entries- զիջել verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- ընդունել verb (to admit to be true)
Bulgarian
4 entries- допу́скам verb ((sports) to have a point scored against)
- допу́сна verb ((sports) to have a point scored against)
- отстъ́пвам verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- отстъ́пвам verb (to yield or make concession)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 承认 verb (to admit to be true)
- 投降 verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
Czech
4 entries- dostat (gól) verb ((sports) to have a point scored against)
- inkasovat verb ((sports) to have a point scored against)
- poskytnout verb (to grant, as a right or privilege)
- připouštět verb (to admit to be true)
Danish
3 entries- bevilge verb (to grant, as a right or privilege)
- indrømme verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- medgive verb (to admit to be true)
Dutch
3 entries- toegeven verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- toegeven verb (to admit to be true)
- toestemmen verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
Esperanto
1 entries- koncedi verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
Finnish
4 entries- antaa periksi verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- antaa periksi verb (to yield or make concession)
- luovuttaa verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- myöntää verb (to grant, as a right or privilege)
French
4 entries- admettre verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- admettre verb (to admit to be true)
- concéder verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- concéder verb (to grant, as a right or privilege)
German
4 entries- einräumen verb (to admit to be true)
- zugeben verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- zugestehen verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- zugestehen verb (to admit to be true)
Greek
1 entries- παραδέχομαι verb (to admit to be true)
Hebrew
2 entries- ויתר \ וִתֵּר verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- קיבל \ קִבֵּל verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
Japanese
3 entries- 敗北を認める verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- 認める verb (to admit to be true)
- 譲歩する verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
Khmer
2 entries- ញ៉ម verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- ព្រមទទួល verb (to admit to be true)
Korean
1 entries- 양보하다 verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
Latin
1 entries- concedō verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
Māori
1 entries- ngawhere verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- bevilge verb (to grant, as a right or privilege)
- erkjenne verb (to admit to be true)
- gi opp verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- godtgjøre verb (to grant, as a right or privilege)
Polish
4 entries- poddawać verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- poddać verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- przyznawać verb (to grant, as a right or privilege)
- przyznawać verb (to admit to be true)
Portuguese
4 entries- ceder verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- conceder verb (to grant, as a right or privilege)
- conceder verb (to admit to be true)
- conceder verb (to yield or make concession)
Quechua
2 entries- uynikuy verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- uynikuy verb (to admit to be true)
Russian
4 entries- призна́ть verb (to grant, as a right or privilege)
- призна́ть verb (to admit to be true)
- признава́ть verb (to grant, as a right or privilege)
- признава́ть verb (to admit to be true)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- aidich verb (to admit to be true)
Spanish
4 entries- ceder verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- conceder verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- conceder verb (to grant, as a right or privilege)
- conferir verb (to grant, as a right or privilege)
Swedish
4 entries- avstå verb (to yield or make concession)
- avträda verb (to yield or make concession)
- bevilja verb (to grant, as a right or privilege)
- erkänna verb (to admit to be true)
Turkish
4 entries- itiraf etmek verb (to admit to be true)
- taviz vermek verb (to yield or make concession)
- teslim etmek verb (to yield or suffer; to surrender)
- ödün vermek verb (to yield or make concession)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thừa nhận verb (to admit to be true)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
The accountant would not concede the mistake.
Source: tatoeba (22456)
We concede your right to this property.
Source: tatoeba (262732)
I concede the argument.
Source: tatoeba (460338)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.