Ce Ceci Cela Ça - French Indefinite Demonstrative Pronouns // French Grammar Course // Lesson 38 🇫🇷

French indefinite demonstrative pronouns (Les pronoms démonstratifs indéfinis) are ce, ceci, cela, and ça. Ce will mostly be used with c'est and ce sont, while ça is the abbreviation of ceci and cela. It is more used in spoken/casual French.
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[@cindystlon]

Such a relief that French sometimes throws you a bone! Makes things much easier when 'this' and 'that' are both consolidated into 'ça'!

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[@Stephanie-gv8rh]

Ah this makes so much more sense! I had always seen ceci and cela written but not really spoken. Merci beaucoup encore pour votre explication 🙏🙏🙏❤️

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

Tout le plaisir est pour moi Stephanie 😍

[@user-zt1gz7ut3i]

Un grand merci a toi, Dylane!

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

De rien :)

[@hccheng]

Merci beaucoup. L'explication est très très claire.

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Je t'en prie :)

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Thank you so much .. this was really helpful

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

Glad it was :)

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Merci, ton leçon était très bien pour moi.

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Pas de quoi :)

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Merci madame! Franchement j'étais confus avec ces mots et merci, c'est clair maintenant.

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Parfait

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Je vais très bien, et toi ça va?

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Merci beaucoup!!!

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Pas de quoi :)

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Merci

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Thanks Dylane

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Tout le plaisir est pour moi Anu 😉

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Merci............A prochaine x

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

À la prochaine ;)

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Gracias por la explicación. :D

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Pas de quoi :)

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Stunning

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

Thank you! 😊

[@kapitanbonk4221]

It’s easy to remember when you think par ici o là to differentiate between ceci and cela regarding distance.

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

That's a great way to explain it, thank you so much!

[@JDC8792]

Simple expressions like those ones make us sound more french. 🙂

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

Exactly :)

[@consciencelai6104]

Hi Dylanne, if we want to say "None of your business", do we say "ca ne vous regarde pas"? or "Ca ne vous concerns pas"? Merci!

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

Tu peux dire les deux mais ça ne vous regarde pas est moins formel :)

[@arifrahmanhakimmd9855]

thanks for the explanation. I have one question for you..in the video, can we use "as-tu vu cela?" instead of "as-tu vu ceci?" to say "did you see that?"

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

Yes you can :)

[@eyyen8233]

Please what is the difference between Cela est une bonne idée Et C'est une bonne idée

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

The main difference is that the second one is correct ;) Cela est is not grammatically correct

[@EfiKourtali]

Hello Dylane! Now i understand when we use ce ceci cela and ca but i have a question. In your example at ca you said ca me plait= i like it. But i have learned that like in french is aimer. can you explain?

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

Good question! We use Plaire as a way to say that we like something. Ce film m'a plu = I liked this movie.

[@EfiKourtali]

and what's the difference in aimer?

[@joshua-yb6pk]

Hello, I have heard many times that ça is used for "it", but sometimes only il and elle are used for "it." I've also heard people say that there is no word for "it" in French. This leaves me kind of confused. How does this work?

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

There is no word for it specifically but we use IL and ELLE instead because everything has a gender in French. You should watch the course from lesson 1, all the answers are there :)

[@joshua-yb6pk]

@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane Understood! I've heard of many statements using the definite articles before the conjugated verb, like "Je l'aime". Do you have a video on this? What is this? Thank you.

[@toono21]

@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane because everything has a gramattical gender in French this lesson was about indefinite pronouns. ca makes sense doesnt il?

[@toono21]

i very much share your dilema, im yet to find the understaning of this problem since your question had been left unanswered.

[@thadeikiwia22]

Cest beau

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

Merci :)

[@joshua-yb6pk]

Another question: what does "y" do in French? I've seen it function differently, and have seen it in the following examples: Ça y est (in the video) J'y vais and of course: y-a-til? Is there an explanation? Thank you!

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

Did you watch the lesson about Y? I am pretty sure I explain everything there but I can answer you quickly. Ça y est is an expression. J'y vais - Y replaces a place. Y a-t-il is the question of IL Y A, which means there is, so Y is simply a part of it :)

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@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane Thank you

[@danieltv1911]

Salut Dylane, Je voudrais te demander quelque chose, Pouvez-vous nous expliquer comment utiliser le verbe "To Happen" en Francais? On aimerait lapprendre, Au revoir prends soins de vous.

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That's a good one! I add this to the list :D

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Marci!

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Pas de quoi :)

[@Yohann_Rechter_De-Farge]

What would be the literal translation of ' Ça Va? '

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That goes :)

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[@emilfaizur]

2:25 Can I say this instead? As-tu vu cela?

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

It's correct but the inversion is a bit formal for the use of TU :)

[@emilfaizur]

@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane Thank you for the tip about the inversion. :) I replaced CECI with CELA because CECI means THIS and CELA means THAT as mentioned at 0:35

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[@jsuisEla]

lol im never using cela or ceci when there is just ça

[@akaalpaka3139]

I dont understand why some users ask the question in fluent french when it is obvious that this is a basic level. Nonesense

[@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane]

I have no idea what you are talking about. Asking a question in fluent French but it’s basic level?

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Thank you so much

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You're most welcome