Introduction to prepositions
A preposition can be used before another word to indicate the relationship of the objects to one another; this can often be placed such as in front of or behind, or sometimes time. In Latin, the prepositions 'take a case', ie. the word that the preposition refers to has to be in a different case. Each preposition has its own case, but many tend to take either the accusative or ablative, for example, if you wanted to say 'I walked into the shop', you would have to use the preposition 'in' to translate 'into', which takes the accusative. So,
I walk into the shop
'into' refers to the shop so 'shop' must be in the accusative
in tabernam ambulo (I walk)
(tabernam is the accusative of taberna)
Prepositions to learn for GCSE that take the ACCUSATIVE
ad to, towards, at ante before, in front of apud at the house of, among, according to circa/circum around,about contra against extra outside in into, onto, against, towards inter among, between intra within, inside, in the space of per through, throughout, along post after, behind praeter except, beyond, besides proper near proper on account of, because of Sub (going) under, (to) beneath, up to super above, on top of, besides trans across
Prepostions to learn for GCSE that take the ABLATIVE
a/ab from, by cum with de about, down from, from e/ex from, out of in in pro in front of, for, in return for, instead of sine without sub under super over, concerning, in addition to
These are vital to rope learn, along with the cases they take since some meanings change with case.
Until next time,
Zoe and Viola