![]() ![]() This means that you can just plug the appropriate preposition into the sentence. The good news is that apart from the contraction of a and de with el ( al and del, respectively), prepositions do not change to show gender/number, etc. ![]() In situations like the one above, it’s very important to know the difference! The Most Common Spanish Prepositions It’s more like a mix-and-match between English and Spanish prepositions, with certain Spanish prepositions doing double duty (correlating to multiple English prepositions) and vice versa. Though Spanish allows you to express the same types of spatial (e.g., beneath, above) and temporal (e.g., before, after) relations between objects, the correlations between prepositions is not one to one. If you’re hunting a large spider in your apartment, I imagine you’d like to know the difference. – ❽ónde está la araña? Where’s the spider?Ī: Está en el tocador It’s in the dresser.ī: Está sobre el tocador. Consider the difference between these two responses: In Spanish there are also many locuciones preposicionales, which can be thought of as “compound prepositions.” Usually, prepositions answer the questions “where?” (functioning as an adverb) and “which one?” (functioning as an adjective). Prepositional phrases can consist of multiple words, which, when combined, function as a preposition does. Prepositions help describe where one thing is in relation to another, in addition to describing movement, time, or providing a description of something/someone based on their location. Someday, I wish upon a star Wake up where the clouds are far behind me Where trouble melts like lemon drops High above the chimney top Where exactly do dreams come true? We’ll need a few prepositions (and maybe even a prepositional phrase) to find out…
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