Pronoun

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1. alternative form of çë (“what”)

Verb

çaCategory:Albanian lemmas#CACategory:Albanian verbs#CACategory:Albanian entries with incorrect language header#CACategory:Pages with entries#ÇACategory:Pages with 4 entries#ÇA

1. (GhegCategory:Gheg Albanian#CA) to break, split

   me ça dru ― to chop some woodCategory:Albanian terms with collocations#CA

Derived terms

Pronoun

ça nCategory:French lemmas#CACategory:French pronouns#CACategory:French entries with incorrect language header#CACategory:Pages with entries#ÇACategory:Pages with 4 entries#ÇA

1. (informalCategory:French informal terms#CA) that (distal demonstrative pronoun)

   Synonym: cela

   J'aimerais ça. ― I'd like that.Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

2. (informalCategory:French informal terms#CA) this (proximal demonstrative pronoun)

   Synonym: ceci

   Je veux ça. ― I want this.Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

3. (informalCategory:French informal terms#CA) it (alternative form of ce as a subject of être in tenses other than the present and imperfect indicative)

   Ça serait mieux que ça soit toi qui lui dises. ― It would be better if you told him yourself.Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

4. (informalCategory:French informal terms#CA, in dislocation) it, that, they, them (reduplicated pronoun referring to an indefinite or generic noun phrase)

   Un peu de vin ça ferait pas de mal. ― A little wine wouldn't hurt.Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

   L'eau ça mouille, le feu ça brûle. ― Water's wet, fire burns (cliché obviously true statement)Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

   J'aime bien ça, moi, les pâtes. ― I do like pasta.Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

5. (impersonalCategory:French impersonal verbs#CA, in some contexts, dialectalCategory:French dialectal terms#CA) it (dummy pronoun)

   Synonym: il

   Ça va. ― It's okay.Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

   Ça mouille dehors. ― It's raining outside.Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

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

   Partout ça criait, ça hurlait, ça se battait. ― There was shouting, screaming, fighting everywhere.Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

   • 1945, Yves Montand, “Rue Lepic”, in Les Chansons d'Yves Montand:

     Et ça grouille et ça vit dans cette vieille rue d'Paris.

     And people hustle and it is lively in that old Paris street.

     Category:French terms with quotations#CA

7. creates isolated emphatic forms of the interrogatives qui, où, quand, comment and pourquoi

   Synonyms: (formal) cela, donc

   Qui ça, où ça? ― Who, where?Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

   Comment ça? ― How so?Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

8. (LouisianaCategory:Louisiana French#CA) he, she, it (third-person singular subject pronoun)

   Synonyms: il m or f, alle f — Louisiana

   • 2010, Albert Valdman, Kevin J. Rottet, Barry Jean Ancelet, Richard Guidry, Thomas A. Klingler, Amanda LaFleur, Tamara Lindner, Michael D. Picone, Dominique Ryon, editors, Dictionary of Louisiana French: as Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian communities, page 95:

     Alle est avec eusse asteur parce qu’alle est malade un petit peu. so^[sic] alle couche là. Ça a quatre-vingts-six ans.

     She is with them now because she is a bit sick. So, she sleeps over there. She is eighty-six years old.

     Category:French terms with quotations#CA

9. (LouisianaCategory:Louisiana French#CA) him, her, it (third-person singular object pronoun)

   Synonyms: le m or f, la f, li m — Louisiana

10. (LouisianaCategory:Louisiana French#CA) they (third-person plural subject pronoun)

    Synonyms: eusse, eux, eux-autres, ils, on — Louisiana

    Comment ça se dit ça? ― What do they call that?Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

11. (LouisianaCategory:Louisiana French#CA) them (third-person plural object pronoun)

    Synonyms: eusse, eux, eux-autres — Louisiana

12. (LouisianaCategory:Louisiana French#CA, interrogative) what

    Ça ina? ― What's the matter?Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

13. (LouisianaCategory:Louisiana French#CA, relative) alternative form of ça que (“that which, what”)

    Un cocodrie mange ça (qu')y veut. ― An alligator eats what it wants.Category:French terms with usage examples#CA

Noun

ça m (uncountable)Category:French lemmas#CACategory:French nouns#CACategory:French uncountable nouns#CACategory:French entries with incorrect language header#CACategory:French masculine nouns#CACategory:Pages with entries#ÇACategory:Pages with 4 entries#ÇA

1. (psychoanalysisCategory:fr:Psychoanalysis#CA) id