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Translation

film, movie

Word origin

Borrowed from English film, originally a Germanic word for a thin skin or membrane, which photography repurposed for the coated strip and cinema then took over entirely.

Origin
English
Root
film
English cognates
film

Examples

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We watched a film yesterday evening.

?

What is your favourite film?

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The film was very long.

You or a film; the cinema itself is , a place-for-cinema built with --. The verb filmi means to film something, so filmis needs no extra machinery. Stress on the first syllable, FIL-mo.

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This word is part of lesson 21.