prepositions in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

prepositions in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for prepositions in the English»Spanish Dictionary (Go to Spanish»English)

Translations for prepositions in the Spanish»English Dictionary (Go to English»Spanish)

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English
For instance, prepositions typically transfer nouns to adjectives or adverbs, and subordinators typically transfer verbs to nouns.
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When sorting noble as well as non-noble names in alphabetic sequence, any prepositions or (former) title are ignored.
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Conjunctions, articles, and short prepositions are not considered major words; however, capitalize all words of four letters or more.
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Several pronouns further have special forms used after prepositions.
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The compound adverbs and prepositions found in the writing of lawyers ("e.g. heretofore, hereunto, thereof") are examples of archaisms as a form of jargon.
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Noun phrases often function as verb subjects and objects, as predicative expressions, and as the complements of prepositions.
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Unusual prepositions, which exist in vast amount in bureaucratic style, as a rule take the genitive.
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Non-subject pronouns are used as topics or objects of verbs or prepositions.
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These true prepositions can not have prepositions preceding them, in contrast to the derived triliteral prepositions.
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Prepositions take the dative or the accusative, but not the genitive, e.g. (formally) "despite the rain".
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