120 Grammar: prepositions
الحروف prepositions
In English, prepositions is a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object. Some examples of prepositions are words like “in,” “at,” “on,” “of,” and “to.”
In Arabic, the حروف are a specific list of words that are defined by their relationship to a verb, and whose meaning comes as a result of that relation. (Some words, such as the word “underneath” تحت and aboveفوق are actually nouns but because we associate them with prepositions in English, we will list them here.
الحروف
| on | على |
| in | في |
| in/with | ب |
| and | ر |
| thus | ف |
| with | مع |
| to | الى |
| from | من |
nouns of time and place that serve as prepositions
| above | فوق |
| below | تحت |
| before | قبل |
| after | بعد |
| behind | وراء |
| in front of | قدام |
| inside | داخل |
| outside | خارج |
| between | بين |
