Prepositions of place

​Отже, що ж таке ці prepositions of place?
Prepositions of place are the words we use when ми хочемо показати де що. Наприклад, чашка на столі. НА - it's a preposition of place.
Так які prepositions of place do you already know? 

Here’s a list I have:

• Above

• Over

• By

• Through

• Inside

• In front of

• Beside

• Opposite

• At

• In

• On

• On top of

• Behind

• Between

• Next to

• Under

Скільки цих words do you already know? 

А тепер let's look at each of them по черзі. 

​Prepositions of place поділяються на two categories: prepositions of movement та prepositions of exact place.

Prepositions of movement tell us the direction (напрямок). Prepositions of exact place tell us де exactly знаходиться наш object.

This is a cupcake:

This is a box:

​In the first picture, the cupcake is IN the box. (всередині) 

In the second picture, the cupcake is ON the box.
What is ON?
It’s на коробці.

What is below? Look at the third picture. We can also say that the cupcake is under the box.

What is above? Guess from the fourth picture. The cupcake is above the box, and the box is below the cupcake.

Above (над) and below (під) are opposites (протилежні) за значенням. 

​Next we have “near”. What is near? It’s a synonym of “by” and “next to”. Look at the picture.
How can we translate “near”? Правильно, поруч! 
So the cupcake is next to the box. The box is near the cupcake.

Next we have “far”. The cupcake is far from the box. It is not near the box, it’s far from it.
Near and far are opposites. 
Far – далеко. 

​The next two are “behind” and “in front of”. Do you think they have the same meaning or different meanings?



They have opposite meanings. The cupcake is in front of the box, and the box is behind the cupcake. In front of = перед, behind = за. 

​In the last line of pictures we have “among”, “around”, “between” and “opposite”.

What is around? We have a pink cupcake, and many yellow cupcakes AROUND the pink cupcake. Around = навколо. 

In the next picture, we have a lot of yellow cupcakes and one pink cupcake among the yellow ones. You’re right! Among = серед.

​In the next picture with the three cupcakes we have two yellow cupcakes and one pink cupcake BETWEEN the yellow cupcakes.
So, between = між 

And in the last picture, we have two cupcakes. They are opposite each other, they are навпроти один одного.
So, opposite =  навпроти.

​Why did I skip the third line of pictures? Yes, because they are prepositions of movement, they show the direction
(вони показують напрямок).


And this is our next topic on the lesson. Have a nice day!