ça
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
Ça serait mieux que ça soit toi qui lui dises.
It would be better if you told him yourself.
Qui ça, où ça?
Who, where?
J'aimerais ça.
I'd like that.
Je veux ça.
I want this.
Partout ça criait, ça hurlait, ça se battait.
There was shouting, screaming, fighting everywhere.
L'eau ça mouille, le feu ça brûle.
Water's wet, fire burns (cliché obviously true statement)