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# cela — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: cela (277 812), celas (4). By style: everyday 5 682 · literary 432 · biblical 612 · parliamentary 82 613 · legal and administrative 18 989 · UN documents 169 488.

## done

Used about 7 288 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 118 · literary ≈ 54 · biblical ≈ 26 · parliamentary ≈ 3 305 · legal and administrative ≈ 396 · UN documents ≈ 3 390). Meaning: [done in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/done/).

- Avez-vous déjà fait **cela** ?
  Have you **done** that already?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5916145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5916145) [\#7853412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7853412))

- **Cela** fait, Thénardier reprit:
  That **done**, Thénardier resumed:—
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17621)

- Pierre, l’ayant pris à part, se mit à le reprendre, et dit: A Dieu ne plaise, Seigneur! **Cela** ne t’arrivera pas.
  Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be **done** to you.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 16:22)

- Cependant, rien de tout **cela** n'a été fait.
  But nothing of the kind has been **done**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1811993)

- **Cela** a été fait pour parvenir à la meilleure correspondance possible avec les données statistiques.
  This was **done** to achieve the closest possible matching with the statistical data.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3672402)

## More sentences

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

- **Cela** me cause une grande joie.
  It brings me great joy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1604910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1604910) [\#1605402](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1605402))

- **Cela** faisait des mois qu’ils construisaient le pont. Ils ne l’avaient pas encore fini.
  It was months since they had been building the bridge. They had not finished building it yet.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#10517195](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10517195) [\#10517189](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10517189))

- Tout le monde sait que Tom ne peut pas faire **cela**.
  Everyone knows that Tom can't do that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zarisi and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7516835](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7516835) [\#8443492](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8443492))

## Grammar

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

## About these examples

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