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/film/
Translation
film, movie
Word origin
Borrowed in the cinematic sense from English 'film', which goes back to Old English filmen ('membrane, thin skin'), a Germanic word. The original sense referred to a thin coating, later the photographic layer.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Root
- filmen
- English cognates
- film, fell
Grammar
Examples
?
Did you see that film last week?
C' France.
It is a very well-known film in France.
' aux romantiques.
She prefers action films to romantic films.
policier entièrement Marseille.
This crime film was shot entirely in Marseille.
tous .
We watch a French film every Friday evening.
Used in
Grammar articles
(10)French Demonstratives: ce, cet, cette, ces and the -ci / -là Distance Split
French Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau
French quel and lequel: Which and Which One
French Negation Beyond pas: ne... que, ni... ni, aucun
French Negation: ne... pas, jamais, rien, personne and the Colloquial ne-Drop
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 Relative Pronouns: qui, que, dont, où and How to Glue Clauses Together
French Superlatives: le plus, le moins, and the Irregulars
Venir de + Infinitive: the French Recent Past (to have just done something)
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