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These are called demonstrative pronouns.

Ceci and cela (very frequently abbreviated to ça) indefinite demonstratives and are approximately this and that in English, but the distinction is much less clear in French. Note how they're the combination of ce + the suffix -ci or -la

Celui, ceux, celle, celles, you can think of them as "the one" or "those". They have to agree in gender and number with what they describe and can also be used with the suffixes mentioned above. e.g.: Ceux-ci

• https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/demonstrative-pronouns/
• https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/indefinite-demonstrative-pronouns/

[woeful sleet]

ceci - this
cela - that
ça - informal version of ceci and cela

celui- the one (male object)
celle - the one (female object)
celui-ci (the one here; this one, male)
celle-ci - (this one; female)
celui-là - (the one there; that one, male)
celle-là -(that one, fem)

ceux (the ones;those, male)
celles (those;female)

ceux-ci - these, male
celles-ci -these, f

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