Czech Prepositions

Czech Prepositions

If you're trying to learn Czech Prepositions you will find some useful resources including a course about time and place prepositions and and demonstrative pronouns... to help you with your Czech 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 Czech. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!

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Czech Prepositions

Learning the Czech 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 Czech language. But first we need to know what the role of Prepositions is in the structure of the grammar in Czech.

Czech 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 PrepositionsCzech Prepositions
PrepositionsPředložky
inside the housev domě
outside the carmimo vůz
with mese mnou
without himbez něj
under the tablepod stolem
after tomorrowpozítří
before sunsetpřed západem slunce
but I'm busyale já jsem zaneprázdněn

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

List of Prepositions in Czech

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

English PrepositionsCzech Prepositions
abouto
abovenad
acrosspřes
afterpo
againstproti
amongmezi
aroundkolem
asjak
atna
beforepřed
behindza
belowpod
beneathpod
besidevedle
betweenmezi
beyondmimo
butale
bypodle
despitenavzdory
downdolů
duringběhem
exceptvyjma
forpro
fromod
inv
insideuvnitř
intodo
nearu
nextdalší
ofz
onna
oppositenaproti
outven
outsidemimo
overpřes
perna
plusplus
roundkolo
sinceod
thannež
throughpřes
till
tona
towardk
underpod
unlikena rozdíl od
until
upnahoru
viapřes
withs
withinv
withoutbez
two wordsdvě slova
according topodle
because ofkvůli
close toblízko
due tovzhledem k
except foraž na
far fromdaleko od
inside ofuvnitř
instead ofmísto
near tov blízkosti
next tovedle
outside ofmimo
prior topřed
three wordstři slova
as far aspokud
as well asstejně jako
in addition toKromě
in front ofpřed
in spite ofnavzdory
on behalf ofjménem
on top ofnavíc
demonstrative pronounsdemonstrativní předložky
thistento, tato, toto
thattamten, tamta, tamto
thesetito, tyto,
thosetamty, tamti, tamta

Time place and demonstrative pronouns have a very important role in Czech, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with Czech Prepositions, you might want to check the rest of our Czech lessons here: Learn Czech. Don't forget to bookmark this page.

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