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See how the word “película” is used in sentences
Anoche vimos una película francesa. — We watched a French film last night.
Una capa fina de polvo cubría el estante. — A film of dust covered the shelf.
Filmaron la boda desde un dron. — They filmed the wedding from a drone.
¿Qué película ganó el premio este año? — Which film won the prize this year?
¿Hay una capa fina de aceite en el agua? — Is there a film of oil on the water?
¿Hoy están filmando dentro del museo? — Are they filming inside the museum today?
Sus películas favoritas son todas comedias. — Her favourite films are all comedies.
Limpia esa capa fina del espejo. — Wipe the thin film off the mirror.
No me filmes mientras como. — Don't film me while I'm eating.
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testThe card's two halves are both real, but their Spanish sides do not line up: for the thin-layer sense the examples fall back on capa fina, when película covers that meaning on its own — una película de aceite, una película de polvo. The word maps onto English film in both directions, which is unusual enough to be worth noticing.
In speech a film is watched with ver, not mirar: ¿viste esa película? It shortens to peli, plural pelis, in any casual conversation. The verb is rodar in Spain — rodar una película — while filmar is normal in Latin America and understood everywhere. And where English splits movie in America from film in Britain, Spanish has one noun; cine covers the medium and the building, not the single work.
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