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# that — English to French

How English *that* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [that in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/that/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: that (6 059 313), thats (3). By style: everyday 36 531 · literary 2 507 · biblical 6 308 · parliamentary 724 339 · legal and administrative 591 617 · UN documents 4 698 014.

## cela

Used about 249 031 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 805 · literary ≈ 366 · biblical ≈ 263 · parliamentary ≈ 60 362 · UN documents ≈ 184 236).

- Let's hope **that**'s true.
  Espérons que **cela** soit vrai.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5178432](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5178432) [\#6474147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6474147))

- “It is not **that**.”
  --Ce n'est pas **cela**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1278)

- **that** the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”
  Il dit **cela**, afin que s’accomplît la parole qu’il avait dite: Je n’ai perdu aucun de ceux que tu m’as donnés.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 18:9)

- **That** gives us hope for the future.
  **Cela** nous donne de l'espoir pour l'avenir.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1268049)

- This requires **that** States ratify treaties, but, more importantly, implement them.
  **Cela** requiert que les États ratifient les traités mais surtout qu &apos; ils les appliquent.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 25306943)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- I'm not sure **that** I can trust you.
  Je ne suis pas sûr de pouvoir me fier à vous.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2540494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2540494) [\#2281336](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2281336))

- Until **that** day, I had never eaten dog meat.
  Jusqu'à ce jour-là, je n'avais jamais mangé de viande de chien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#954446](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/954446) [\#958222](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/958222))

- I think **that** you've helped enough.
  Je pense que vous avez suffisamment aidé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and josivangoncalves · checked, community translation · [\#8230230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8230230) [\#8231490](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8231490))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

## About these examples

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