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# cette — French to English

How French *cette* 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: cette (1 437 497), cettes (7). By style: everyday 8 024 · literary 929 · biblical 878 · parliamentary 204 434 · legal and administrative 154 642 · UN documents 1 068 597.

## this

Used about 568 381 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 182 · literary ≈ 465 · biblical ≈ 439 · parliamentary ≈ 132 030 · legal and administrative ≈ 80 543 · UN documents ≈ 349 723).

- J'adore **cette** chaise.
  I adore **this** chair.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7328348](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7328348) [\#844213](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/844213))

- Il faut punir **cette** criminelle.
  **This** criminal must be punished.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7935)

- Tu observeras **cette** ordonnance au temps fixé d’année en année.
  You shall therefore keep **this** ordinance in its season from year to year.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 13:10)

- Nous abordons **cette** question dans le rapport.
  We talk about **this** in the report.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1443640)

- Elle assure la mise à jour de **cette** liste.
  The Commission shall ensure that **this** list is kept up to date.
  ([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 1740187)

## More sentences

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

- Qu'allez-vous faire **cette** nuit ?
  What are you going to do tonight?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rene1596 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#69405](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/69405) [\#1174552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1174552))

- La genèse de **cette** idée remonte à une conversation informelle dix ans plus tôt.
  The genesis of that idea can be traced back to a casual conversation a decade earlier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2355484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2355484) [\#8587142](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8587142))

- Qui est **cette** femme qui porte un manteau brun ?
  Who's the woman in the brown coat?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7824132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7824132) [\#333058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/333058))

## 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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