PREPOSITIONS

Prepositions are words that denote position or movement. In Latin they take, as a rule, either the accusative case or the ablative case. A few can take either case, with different shades of meaning.

Here are six of each to get you started.

 

ad + accusative - to, towards

circum + accusative - around

ante + accusative - before

post + accusative - after

trans + accusative - across

in + accusative - into

 

a/ab + ablative - from

cum + ablative - with

e/ex + ablative - out of

de + ablative - about, concerning

sine + ablative - without

in + ablative - in on