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C'est celle avec qui tu as beaucoup de choses en commun.

C'est celle avec qui tu as beaucoup de choses en commun.
She is the one you have a lot of things in common with.
From Lesson 241:Relative clauses with prepositions (à qui, avec qui)·French

Questions & Answers about C'est celle avec qui tu as beaucoup de choses en commun.

Why is avec in the middle of the sentence when 'with' is at the end in English?
In French, you can never leave a preposition like avec dangling at the end of a sentence. It must be placed directly before the relative pronoun. The French structure avec qui literally translates to the formal English 'with whom'.
Why do we use qui here instead of que?
While qui usually acts as a subject pronoun meaning 'who', the rules change after a preposition. After prepositions like avec, pour, or à, qui is used to mean 'whom' whenever you are referring to a person.
What exactly does celle mean here, and why wouldn't we use celui?
celle is a feminine demonstrative pronoun that means 'the one'. The speaker uses it to refer to a female person they have already mentioned without having to repeat her name. If they were talking about a male, they would use the masculine equivalent, celui.
Since choses is plural, why is it beaucoup de choses and not beaucoup des choses?
This is a great refresher on a strict French rule: after expressions of quantity like beaucoup (a lot), trop (too much), or un peu (a little), you must always use de or d'. You never use des right after a quantity word, even when the following noun is plural.

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