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Los Preposiciones
- --Words/word phrases that can come before a noun to indicate relationship between that noun + another word in sentence
- --Never change form
- --Most indicate relationship between 2 words in terms of time, location, direction, origin
- --Prepositions used in Spanish may not have direct English translation
- Location: Roberto está en Sevilla
- Time: Mi vuelo es a la una
- Ownership: la casa de José Maria
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Preposiciones Simples
- Limited number of single-word prepositions in Spanish; they ALWAYS come between 2 words; they informally can go at the end in English.
- ("Rita es la chica con la que salgo./...the girl I go out with.")
- --a (at, to)
- --ante (before, facing)
- --bajo (under)
- --con (with)
- --contra (against)
- --de (of, from)
- --desde (from, since)
- --durante (during)
- --en (on, in, at)
- --entre (between)
- --excepto, salvo (except, apart from)
- --hacia (toward)
- --mediante (through, by means of)
- --para (for, to, in order to, by)
- --por (for, because of, by)
- --según (according to)
- --sin (without)
- --sobre (over, about)
- --tras (after, behind)
- These are sometimes counted as prepositions
- --pro; comes before nouns
- (grupos pro derechos humanos/ pro-human rights groups)
- --versus [contra, frente a]; only used in formal texts
- (las grandes economías versus las econimías de menor escala/ large economies vs. small-scale economies)
- --vía; indicates how something is done; the medium/route
- (El viaje es de San Fran a Nueva York vía Chicago./ The trip is from SF to NY, via Chicago.)
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Los Preposiciones: uso de "and" o "or"
- --In English, 2 prepositions can be joined using "and/or"
- --Spanish, they appear separately; noun/phrase that the preposition refers to is repeated, but in the second instance can be replaced by a pronoun
- (Tomo el autobús para ir a la escuela y regresar de la escuela)
- (Plantaremos árboles delante de la casa o detrás de ella.)
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Compound Prepositions (Locuciones preposicionales)
and Prepositional Phrases (Frases preposicionales)
- Either formed by:
- --2 simple prepositions
- (por entre/through)
- --Combo of preposition(s) + adverb
- ([por] delante de/in front of)
- --Combo of preposition(s) + noun
- (en contraste con/in contrast with)
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