How prepositions work in Spanish . Video lesson.

Question

Listen and learn to use prepositions .

Eighty five Spanish prepositions are used in exactly the same way as in English .

We teach them just a few at a time. The students probably get half of them by the end of the first semester. - Daniela2041, Jul 29, 2016

Sí mi amor , I figure that every little bit of information will finally sink in , it is the drip-feed method i guess. Thanks you so much for your help. - ray76, Jul 29, 2016

Gracias mod mate. :) - ian-hill, Jul 29, 2016

Answer 1

A friend of mine in Bolivia wrote a thesis on prepositions and compared English prepositions with the lack of them in Quechua.

This is his introduction.

The function of the preposition in the English syntax structure is quite thought provoking.

The fact that the preposition is a key element in the syntax structure domain as well as in the meaning domain makes it the focus of this research.

The Quechua language, on the other hand, being a clustered language, does not have a preposition-like word in its syntax structure.

In the Quechua syntax structure, a suffix works as a preposition.

The place this preposition-like word takes in the syntax structure, therefore, is characterised by being structurally different and probably by representing a cultural feature that renders an important cultural difference between English and Quechua.

That is fascinating , Is Quechua the indigenous language of Bolivia ? - ray76, Jul 29, 2016

One of about 30 Ray. - ian-hill, Jul 29, 2016