Italian Prepositions

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Italian Prepositions

Learning the Italian Prepositions is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you practice the subject, the closer you get to mastering the Italian language. But first we need to know what the role of Prepositions is in the structure of the grammar in Italian.

Italian prepositions link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition. Here are some examples:

English Prepositions	Italian Prepositions
Prepositions	Preposizioni
inside the house	all'interno della casa (or)dentro la casa
outside the car	al di fuori della vettura (or)fuori dalla vettura
with me	con me
without him	senza di lui
under the table	sotto il tavolo
after tomorrow	dopo domani
before sunset	prima del tramonto
but I'm busy	ma ho da fare

As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Prepositions in Italian has a logical pattern. Locate the Prepositions above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Italian.

List of Prepositions in Italian

Below is a list of the Time place and demonstrative pronouns in Italian placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Italian vocabulary.

English Prepositions	Italian Prepositions
about	riguardo (a)
above	sopra
across	attraverso
after	dopo
against	contro
among	tra
around	intorno a
as	come
at	a
before	prima
behind	dietro
below	sotto
beneath	al di sotto
beside	accanto a
between	tra
beyond	al di là di
but	ma
by	da
despite	nonostante
down	giù
during	durante
except	ad eccezione di (or)eccetto
for	per
from	da
in	in
inside	dentro
into	in
near	vicino
next	prossimo
of	di
on	su
opposite	opposto
out	fuori
outside	al di fuori (or)fuori
over	sopra
per	per (or) ogni
plus	più
round	intorno a
since	poiché
than	poi
through	attraverso
till	fino
to	a
toward	verso
under	sotto
unlike	a differenza di
until	fino a quando
up	su
via	tramite
with	con
within	all'interno
without	senza

two words	due parole
according to	secondo (or)a seconda di
because of	a causa di
close to	nei pressi di
due to	a causa di
except for	fatta eccezione per
far from	lontano da
inside of	entro, prima della fine di
instead of	invece di
near to	vicino a
next to	accanto a
outside of	al di fuori di
prior to	prima di

three words	tre parole
as far as	fino a
as well as	come pure, in aggiunta
in addition to	oltre
in front of	di fronte a
in spite of	nonostante
on behalf of	a nome di
on top of	sopra

demonstrative pronouns	preposizioni dimostrative
this	questa
that	quello/quella
these	questi/queste
those	quelli/quelle

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Italian Prepositions

Italian Prepositions

Italian Prepositions

List of Prepositions in Italian

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