please help me, i need to learn the prepositions of place.
IN : there’s somebody in the bathrrom.
Russia is the biggest country in the world.
AT : he's waiting at the bus stop.
there's somedody at the door.
at home/ at work/ at school/ at university/ at college / at sea/
in bed/ in hospital/ in prison/ in jail.
ON : he's sitting on a towel.
there's blood on your shirt.
ON TOP OF : put your skis on top of the car.
INSIDE : you cant wear shoes inside a Mosque.
OUTSIDE : please leave your shoes outside the Mosque.
OVER : there's a cupboard over the sink.
but in these examples [quote]at home/ at work/ at school/ at university/ at college / at sea/
in bed/ in hospital/ in prison/ in jail.[/quote]
we use fi
Then, for “in front of” there is amam. “in back of” would be khalf. “underneath” would be taht, or min taht. Sometimes “qaddam” is used for “in front of”. The prepositions are hard in any language because they tend to be arbitrary. In Arabic you marry “min” a family/person. You also get close to an airport by “iqtaraba min al Mattar” The best way to learn these is to read a lot, especially Qur’an. After a while you will get a feel for which preposition performs which function, but until you reach that level there will be a lot of rote memorization of sentences, and you still will probably feel weird using the equivalent of “in” to say things like “ufakkiru fik” which is, word for word, “I think in you” but really means “I’m thinking of you.”
