ça
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Meanings
Pronoun
1. that (distal demonstrative pronoun) (informal)
2. this (proximal demonstrative pronoun) (informal)
3. it (alternative form of ce as a subject of être in tenses other than the present and imperfect indicative) (informal)
4. it, that, they, them (reduplicated pronoun referring to an indefinite or generic noun phrase) (informal, in dislocation)
5. it (dummy pronoun) (impersonal or, in some contexts, dialectal)
6. used to indicate actions happening generally without specifying an agent, like on but with a greater suggestion of mass, generalized, unattributable, or confused action; people
7. creates isolated emphatic forms of the interrogatives qui, où, quand, comment and pourquoi
8. he, she, it (third-person singular subject pronoun) (Louisiana)
9. him, her, it (third-person singular object pronoun) (Louisiana)
10. they (third-person plural subject pronoun) (Louisiana)
11. them (third-person plural object pronoun) (Louisiana)
12. what (Louisiana, interrogative)
Examples9548
It would be better if you told him yourself.
Who, where?
I'd like that.
I want this.
There was shouting, screaming, fighting everywhere.
Water's wet, fire burns (cliché obviously true statement)