Galician Prepositions

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

Galician Prepositions

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

Galician 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	Galician Prepositions
Prepositions	Preposicións
inside the house	nunha casa
outside the car	fóra do coche
with me	comigo
without him	sen el
under the table	debaixo da mesa
after tomorrow	despois de mañá
before sunset	antes do por do sol
but I'm busy	pero eu estou ocupado

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

List of Prepositions in Galician

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

English Prepositions	Galician Prepositions
about	sobre
above	arriba
across	a través de
after	despois
against	contra
among	entre
around	en torno a
as	como
at	en
before	antes
behind	atrás
below	embaixo
beneath	embaixo
beside	ao lado de
between	entre
beyond	ademais
but	pero
by	por
despite	a pesar de
down	abaixo
during	durante
except	excepto
for	para
from	de
in	en
inside	dentro
into	en
near	seguinte
next	seguinte
of	de
on	en
opposite	oposto
out	fóra
outside	fóra
over	sobre
per	por
plus	máis
round	redondo
since	dende
than	que
through	a través
till	ata
to	a
toward	para
under	en
unlike	ao contrario
until	ata
up	arriba
via	vía
with	con
within	dentro
without	sen

two words	dúas palabras
according to	conforme
because of	por causa de
close to	seguinte
due to	debido a
except for	excepto para
far from	lonxe
inside of	dentro
instead of	en vez de
near to	preto de
next to	seguinte
outside of	fóra do
prior to	antes de

three words	tres palabras
as far as	tanto como
as well as	así como
in addition to	ademais de
in front of	adiante
in spite of	a pesar de
on behalf of	en nome de
on top of	enriba de

demonstrative pronouns	preposicións demostrativo
this	este
that	que
these	estes
those	aqueles

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

Galician Prepositions

Galician Prepositions

Galician Prepositions

List of Prepositions in Galician

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