Polyglot Dictionary

cinéma

/si.ne.ma/

le noun A1

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
les cinémas

Meaning

  1. cinema

    • Ils regardent un film au cinéma.

      They are watching a movie at the cinema.

N Category Place Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

film

Worth distinguishing: cinéma is the medium/place; film is the movie itself.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

cine

cine is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "cinema."

Portuguese

cinema

cinema is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "cinema."

Practice

1 What does cinéma mean?

2 Fill the gap: Ils regardent un film au ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches cinéma?

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