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.

• Avez-vous déjà fait cela ?

  Have you done that already?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #5916145 #7853412

• Cela fait, Thénardier reprit:

  That done, Thénardier resumed:—

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1604910 #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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · #10517195 #10517189

• Tout le monde sait que Tom ne peut pas faire cela.

  Everyone knows that Tom can't do that.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zarisi and CK · checked, community translation · #7516835 #8443492

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