Les pronoms dmonstratifs

Celui
Celle
Ceux

The one (replacing masculine noun)

The one (replacing feminine noun)
Those (replacing masculine plural
noun)
Those (replacing feminine plural noun)

Celles

Purpose: To replace a specific noun which has been mentioned or is obvious from
context, in order to avoid repeating it
How are they used?
Demonstrative pronouns do not stand alone. They are always used in one of
these contexts:

With the suffixes ci or l to make a distinction between objects

or persons
Voici plusieurs magazines. Tu veux celui-ci ou celui-l ?

Followed by a preposition often de/d or a compound preposition

with de/d
Quelle littrature aimes-tu mieux? Celle dAmrique latine ou celle de
France ?

Followed by a clause introduced by a relative pronoun (qui, que,

or dont)
Cet auteur a une douzaine de romans policiers. Celui que je lis est
formidable !