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Evolution du cinéma - Vocab English to French

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Evolution du cinéma -English to French

Key topic words

  • l’applaudissement (m) - applause
  • le cinéaste - filmmaker
  • le court-métrage - short film
  • l’exposition (f) - exhibition
  • le long-métrage - feature length film
  • la projection - projection, screening, showing

Nouns

  • l’avancement (m) - technological advance technologique
  • le / la comédien(-ienne) - actor
  • la durée - length, running time
  • l’écran (m) plat - flat screen
  • le mode de règlement - means of payment
  • le monopole - monopoly

Nouns (continued)

  • la renaissance - rebirth
  • le tournage - filming, shooting
  • la version du réalisateur - director’s cut
  • le montage - editing

Verbs

  • concevoir - to conceive
  • déclencher - to set in motion
  • mériter - to merit, to be worth
  • nuire à - to be harmful to
  • projeter - to project, to screen, to show
  • proposer - to offer, to propose, to suggest

Adjectives

  • attendu - expected
  • décevant - disappointing
  • restreint - limited
  • vieux jeu - old-fashioned, out of date

Others

  • en permanence - permanently
  • en noir et blanc - in black and white
  • à travers le monde - throughout the world

Jump to other topics

1The Changing Nature of Family

2The 'cyber-society'

3The Place of Voluntary Work

4Diverse Society

5The Marginalised

6How Criminals Are Treated

7A Culture Proud of its Heritage

8Cinema: the 7th Art Form

9Demonstrations, strikes – who holds the power?

10Politics & Immigration

11Conjugation & Use of Tenses

11.1Present Tense

11.2Perfect Tense

11.3Imperfect Tense

11.4Future Tense

11.5Conditional Tense

11.6Future Perfect Tense

11.7Conditional Perfect Tense

11.8Pluperfect Tense

12Extra Grammar

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