ça
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ca"
Albanian edit
Pronoun edit
ça
- what
Verb edit
ça
- to break, split
Alternative forms edit
References edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin ecce ha. Compare French çà.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
ça
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “ça” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “ça”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “ça” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “ça” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French edit
Etymology edit
Contraction of cela.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /sa/
- (Canada) IPA(key): [sɑ], [sɔ]
audio (France) (file) audio (Quebec) (file) - Homophones: çà, ç’a, sa
Pronoun edit
ça
- (informal) that
- J’aimerais ça. ― I'd like that.
- (informal) this
- Je veux ça. ― I want this.
- it
- Ça va. ― It's okay.
- 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.
- (Louisiana) they
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
ça m (uncountable)
Further reading edit
- “ça”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)
Salar edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Persian چای (čây), from Sinitic 茶 (chá).
Noun edit
ça (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])
References edit
- Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “ça”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 306