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Prepositions in French Prepositions in French A preposition is a word used to link nouns, pronouns or phrases to other words within a sentence. They act to connect the people, objects, time and locations of a sentence. The following list shows that some prepositions can be remembered as opposites as demonstrated in the Learn French with Alexa video French Essentials lesson 12, which is posted as a link on the Cam, Dursley & District U3A French Intermediate web page. Examples: (before) avant après (after) (with) avec sans (without) (in front) devant derrière (behind) (near) près de loin de (far) (on) sur sous (under) (here) voici voila (there) (high) haut bas (low) (next to) à côté de (in front of/facing) en face de See next page for a table of basic French prepositions Page 1 of 3 Prepositions in French Basic French Prepositions French Common English Equivalent Comments Preposition à at, in a+le = au a+les = aux après after avant before avec with For example: at/to …’s house/place chez moi = at my house chez on/from the premises of je passe chez toi = I’ll come to your from/at …’s (with a company house name) je l’ai acheté chez Darty = I bought it at Darty’s contre against dans in(side) de of, from de+le = du de+les = des Also translates as English for when depuis since, from used to indicate a continuing action, eg I’ve been working for two days = je travaille depuis deux jours. derrière behind devant in front of, outside (the front of) Used mainly with feminine en in countries and certain figurative expressions entre between, among The preposition envers means envers towards “towards” as in “I was kind towards him”. When talking about physical motion towards something, or Page 2 of 3 Prepositions in French French Common English Equivalent Comments Preposition progress towards a solution, vers is used. Used postpositionally about a third environ about, approximately of the time, eg about 30 people can be translated as either environ 30 personnes or 30 personnes environ par by, through pendant during Also used to mean “for” with a past duration of time pour for sans without sauf except selon according to, depending on sous under(neath) sur on Also used with dates to mean “in vers towards around …” “circa”. See also the preposition envers on the previous page. Page 3 of 3
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