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La ventana se cerró con el viento.

La ventana se cerró con el viento.
The window blew shut in the wind.
From Lesson 361:More about se (se abrió la puerta, se lo di a Ana)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about La ventana se cerró con el viento.

Why is se cerró used here instead of just cerró?
Adding the pronoun se shows that the window closed on its own, without a specific person doing it. If you just said La ventana cerró, it would sound incomplete, as if the window actively closed something else.
Could I say por el viento instead of con el viento?
You might be tempted to use por to mean 'by the wind'. However, con is highly natural here to introduce a natural element or circumstance that causes an accidental event. Using por el viento makes the wind sound slightly more like an active, intentional agent.
How does this Spanish sentence translate to 'blew shut' without using a verb for blowing?
English often combines the action and the result into one verb phrase, like 'blew shut'. Spanish prefers to state the final result (se cerró, meaning it closed) and then add the cause or method as a separate detail (con el viento, meaning with the wind).

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