If you're trying to learn Samoan Prepositions you will find some useful resources including a course about time and place prepositions and and demonstrative pronouns... to help you with your Samoan grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Samoan. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!
Learning the Samoan Prepositions is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Samoan language. But first we need to know what the role of Prepositions is in the structure of the grammar in Samoan.
Samoan 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 | Samoan Prepositions |
|---|---|
| Prepositions | |
| inside the house | totonu o le fale |
| outside the car | fafo atu o le ta'avale |
| with me | ma a'u |
| without him | e le'I iai le tama |
| under the table | lalo o le laulau |
| after tomorrow | pe'a 'uma taeao |
| before sunset | ae le'I goto le la |
| but I'm busy | peita'I ou te pisi |
Notice the structure of the Prepositions in Samoan.
Below is a list of the Time place and demonstrative pronouns in Samoan placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Samoan vocabulary.
| English Prepositions | Samoan Prepositions |
|---|---|
| about | ta'amilo |
| above | luga ifo |
| across | fa'alava |
| after | pe'a uma |
| against | tete'e |
| among | |
| around | fa'ata'amilo |
| as | |
| at | |
| before | luma/ae le'I o'o iai |
| behind | o tua |
| below | lalo |
| beneath | laloifo |
| beside | autafa |
| between | o le va |
| beyond | talaatu |
| but | peita'i |
| by | |
| despite | |
| down | lalo |
| during | a'o iai/a'o faia |
| except | vagana |
| for | mo (ia/oe/a'u etc |
| from | |
| in | totonu |
| inside | totonu |
| into | totonu |
| near | latalata |
| next | soso'o |
| of | |
| on | luga |
| opposite | fa'afesaga'i |
| out | fafo |
| outside | fafo atu |
| over | ova/luga |
| per | tasi |
| plus | fa'aopoopo |
| round | lapotopoto |
| since | talu mai |
| than | |
| through | ui I totonu o se mea/fale/fanua etc |
| till | se'ia |
| to | I le |
| toward | aga'i |
| under | lalo ifo |
| unlike | |
| until | se'iloga |
| up | luga |
| via | ui atu ai |
| with | ma |
| within | |
| without | |
| two words | lua upu |
| according to | fa'atatau ile/iai |
| because of | aua o le |
| close to | latalata I le |
| due to | |
| except for | ae ese mai |
| far from | mamao ese mai |
| inside of | I totonu ifo |
| instead of | ae le o lena |
| near to | soso'o atu ma le |
| next to | tala atu o le |
| outside of | fafo atu o le |
| prior to | |
| three words | tolu upu |
| as far as | e pei lava o le mamao |
| as well as | e tai pei lava |
| in addition to | e fa'aopoopo atu iai |
| in front of | I luma ifo |
| in spite of | e tiga lava |
| on behalf of | |
| on top of | I luga ifo |
| demonstrative pronouns | |
| this | o lea |
| that | o lena |
| these | o laia |
| those | o na |
Time place and demonstrative pronouns have a very important role in Samoan. Once you're done with Samoan Prepositions, you might want to check the rest of our Samoan lessons here: Learn Samoan. Don't forget to bookmark this page.
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