they were
C'étaient des amis.
They were friends.
— La Cité des hommes (2007)
C'étaient des voix calmes.
They were calm voices.
— Anatomie d'une chute (2023)
C'étaient peut-être des appels en direct.
They may have been live calls.
— Scream 7 (2026)
Mais c'étaient les mensonges qu'ils voulaient entendre.
But those were the lies they wanted to hear.
— Wicked : Partie II (2025)
Avant, c'étaient mes amis.
They used to be my friends.
— Dune : Deuxième partie (2024)
C'étaient des Elfes.
They were Elves.
— Le Seigneur des anneaux : La Communauté de l'anneau (2001)
C'étaient des manuels.
They were manuals.
— Les Affranchis (1990)
C'étaient leurs noms.
Those were their names.
— Mystic River (2003)
Je me suis cru mort, mais au bruit, j'ai su que c'étaient des flics.
I thought I was dead, but from the sound of it, I knew they were cops.
C'étaient Meghna et Meeta, des amies de Amar.
They were Meghna and Meeta, friends of Amar.
— De tout cœur (1998)
C'étaient des enfants.
They were children.
C'étaient les mots de ma demande en mariage.
Those were the words I used when I proposed.
— Departures (2008)
C'étaient vos dernières paroles.
Those were your last words.
— Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Et c'étaient les meilleurs !
And they were the best!
— Andreï Roublev (1966)
C'étaient des clients.
They were customers.
— Les Bonnes étoiles (2022)
C'étaient les célèbres femmes de la rivière Huai Qin.
They were the famous women of the Huai Qin River.
— Sacrifices of War (2011)
C'étaient pourtant de simples rochers.
Yet they were just simple rocks.
— Le Château dans le ciel (1986)
C'étaient des Hommes autrefois.
They were men once.
C'étaient des révolutionnaires.
They were revolutionaries.
— La La Land (2016)
C'étaient leurs paroles exactes.
Those were their exact words.
— Le vent se lève (2006)
C'étaient de bons amis.
They were good friends.
C'étaient des extraterrestres.
They were aliens.
C'étaient les mêmes anciens endroits où je devais vivre ma vie.
They were the same old places where I had to live my life.
— Les Enfants du temps (2019)
Vendredi, au Copa, c'étaient les petites amies.
On Friday at the Copa, it was the girlfriends.
C'étaient vraiment des jeunes mariés ?
Were they really newlyweds?
— Voyage à Tokyo (1953)
C'étaient des connards de hippies.
They were a bunch of fucking hippies.
— Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
C'étaient les dollars de Chika.
Those were Chika's dollars.
— La petite Véra (1988)
C'étaient ses fleurs préférées.
They were her favorite flowers.
C'étaient des amis de votre mari.
They were friends of your husband.
— Le Miroir (1975)
Mais il savait d'une manière ou d'une autre que c'étaient des fausses, non ?
But he somehow knew they were fake, didn’t he?
— Crime 101 (2026)
C'étaient des soldats.
They were soldiers.
C'étaient pas mes affaires.
It wasn’t my business.
— Manon des sources (1986)
Mais c'étaient des amateurs.
But they were amateurs.
— La Cité de Dieu (2002)
C'étaient de fausses informations.
They were false reports.
C'étaient des gens ordinaires.
They were ordinary people.
— Il est de retour (2015)
C'étaient les personnages de mon film.
They were the characters in my film.
— Rang de Basanti (2006)
C'étaient des conneries, hein ?
That was bullshit, right?
— Rushmore (1998)
C'étaient les hommes de Nishad.
They were Nishad's men.
— Article 15 (2019)
Nos maris, c'étaient pas des grands patrons.
Our husbands weren’t big bosses.
C'étaient tous des monstres ?
Were they all monsters?