el
/film/
Translation
film
Word origin
Borrowed from English 'film', originally meaning a thin skin or layer and later the light-sensitive coating used in cinema. Spanish prefers 'película', but 'film' persists in cultured and journalistic usage.
- Origin
- English
- Root
- film
- English cognates
- film
Grammar
Examples
.
This film won several prizes last year.
festival.
The director presented his new film at the festival.
terror .
We watched a very old horror film.
.
I found the film's music beautiful.
basado .
That film is based on a true story.
Used in
Grammar articles
(9)Spanish Adjective Suffixes: -oso, -able, -ante, -al (famoso, aceptable, cultural)
Spanish Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau
The Spanish Neuter lo (lo bueno, lo que, lo de)
The Spanish Pluperfect (había hablado)
Spanish Present Perfect: he hablado, ha vivido, hemos visto
Spanish Punctuation and Capitalisation: the opening ¿ and ¡, lowercase lunes and español
Reported Questions and Commands in Spanish (me preguntó si, me dijo que viniera)
Spanish Set Phrases with tener, dar, hacer, echar (tener ganas, echar de menos, hacer falta)
The Spanish Subjunctive in Relative Clauses (busco a alguien que sepa)
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