🇬🇧🇪🇸 puppet - marioneta : English Lesson

Meaning of "puppet" ("marioneta"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A puppet is a small pretend person or animal, usually made of cloth, wood, or plastic, that you can move with your hand or with strings to make it act out stories, talk, and look like it’s alive.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Dad used a dog puppet to tell us to clean our room, and somehow we actually listened to the puppet.

The dragon puppet tried to blow fire, but only sneezed glitter all over the room.

I used a shark puppet to read a bedtime story, and now all the characters mysteriously got eaten.

The superhero puppet rescued my sandwich from the floor and then ate it as a service fee.

People have used puppets for thousands of years to tell stories, long before TVs and cartoons even existed.

An old man lifted a small puppet from a wooden box. He put the puppet on his hand and pulled gentle strings to make the puppet wave. The child watched the puppet blink, then laugh. A second puppet appeared and they danced across the table. The child clapped; the puppets bowed, both smiling.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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