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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

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premio, noun
prize

Perhaps winning the Nobel Prize is one of the greatest achievements anyone can aim for. In Spanish, you refer to it as el premio Nobel.

Recibió el premio Nobel de la Paz.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

To describe which achievement a prize is honoring, Spanish uses the preposition a:

el premio a la mejor actriz
the prize for the best actress

el premio a la mejor traducción
the prize for the best translation

Typical verbs you use with premio are recibir, ganar, and obtener:

Obtuvo el premio a la mejor película extranjera del año.
It received the prize for the best foreign film of the year.

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