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/si.ne.ma/
Translation
cinema
Word origin
A shortening of cinématographe, coined by the Lumière brothers from Greek kinema ('movement') plus -graphe ('writing'). The same root gives English 'cinema'.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- kinema
- English cognates
- cinema
Grammar
Examples
au ?
Shall we go to the cinema this evening?
l' .
This film made the history of French cinema.
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There is a new cinema near the station.
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She dreams of working in the cinema.
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The cinema was full for the new release.
Where this fits
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Grammar articles
(9)French Articles: Definite, Indefinite, Partitive, and the Article English Speakers Drop
French Imparfait: One Stem, One Set of Endings, One Irregular
French Imperative: tu, nous, vous Commands and the Three Irregulars
French Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau
Passé Composé vs Imparfait: How to Choose Between the Two French Past Tenses
French Passé Composé: avoir or être + Past Participle and the MRS VANDERTRAMP Set
French Prepositions: à, de, en, dans, sur, chez and the Mandatory Contractions
French Question Words: qui, que, quand, où, comment, pourquoi and the Three Ways to Ask
French Subject Pronouns: je, tu, il, nous, vous, ils and the on That Replaced nous
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