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# celle — French to English

How French *celle* 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: celle (206 556), celles (212 690). By style: everyday 646 · literary 74 · biblical 169 · parliamentary 30 589 · legal and administrative 64 925 · UN documents 322 843.

## than

Used about 31 271 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 54 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 2 230 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 792 · UN documents ≈ 20 178). Meaning: [than in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/than/).

- **Celles**-ci sont meilleures que **celles**-là.
  These are better **than** those.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#9329987](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9329987) [\#13692605](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13692605))

- Une tempête, plus furieuse que **celle** qui autrefois l'avait poussé vers Arras, se déchaîna en lui.
  A tempest, more furious **than** the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within him.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30070)

- Et il me dit: Vois-tu, fils de l’homme? Tu verras encore d’autres abominations plus grandes que **celles**-là.
  Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations **than** these.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 8:15)

- **Celle**-ci est-elle meilleure que les constitutions nationales ?
  Is the latter, again, better **than** the national constitutions?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 25572)

- parties de vêtements ou d’accessoires du vêtement, autres que **celles** du no6212:
  parts of garments or of clothing accessories, other **than** those of heading 6212:
  ([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 84700)

## More sentences

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

- Ma voiture est garée derrière **celle** de Tom.
  My car is parked behind Tom's car.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adrien\_FR and CK · checked, community translation · [\#11698015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11698015) [\#11698032](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11698032))

- Quand Tom eut fini de laver la voiture, **celle**-ci était propre comme un sou neuf.
  When Tom had finished washing the car, it was as clean as a whistle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#13829434](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13829434) [\#3178164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3178164))

- D'où venait **celle**-ci ?
  Where did this one come from?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2892781](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2892781) [\#5579366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5579366))

## 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/).

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