Why do we say “ça c’est” instead of “ça est”?
The word for “that” in French is “ça” and “is” is “est”, so why don’t we say “ça est” for “that is”?
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3 min readJun 3, 2023
I thought I’d write this short post about the phrase “ça c’est”, because I get a lot of questions asking why we say “ça c’est” rather than “ça est” when we want to say “that is”. Hopefully it’ll clear up any doubts.
