If you're trying to learn Latvian Prepositions you will find some useful resources including a course about time and place prepositions and and demonstrative pronouns... to help you with your Latvian 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 Latvian. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!
Learning the Latvian Prepositions displayed below is vital to the language. Latvian 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 | Latvian Prepositions |
|---|---|
| Prepositions | Prievārdi |
| inside the house | mājā |
| outside the car | ārpus automašīnas |
| with me | ar mani |
| without him | bez viņa |
| under the table | zem galda |
| after tomorrow | parīt |
| before sunset | pirms saulrieta |
| but I'm busy | bet es esmu aizņemts |
Notice the structure of the Prepositions in Latvian.
Below is a list of the Time place and demonstrative pronouns in Latvian placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Latvian vocabulary.
| English Prepositions | Latvian Prepositions |
|---|---|
| about | par |
| above | virs |
| across | pāri |
| after | pēc |
| against | pret |
| among | starp |
| around | ap |
| as | kā |
| at | pie |
| before | pirms |
| behind | aiz |
| below | zemāk |
| beneath | zem |
| beside | blakus |
| between | starp |
| beyond | pēc |
| but | bet |
| by | līdz |
| despite | neskatoties uz |
| down | uz leju |
| during | laikā |
| except | izņemot |
| for | par |
| from | no |
| in | iekšā |
| inside | iekšā |
| into | iekšā |
| near | netālu |
| next | blakus |
| of | no |
| on | par |
| opposite | pretim/pretī |
| out | ārā |
| outside | ārpus |
| over | pāri |
| per | uz |
| plus | plus |
| round | apkārt/riņķī |
| since | kopš |
| than | nekā /kā |
| through | caur |
| till | līdz |
| to | līdz |
| toward | pret |
| under | zem |
| unlike | pretēji |
| until | līdz |
| up | uz augšu |
| via | caur |
| with | ar |
| within | iekšā/robežās |
| without | bez |
| two words | divi vārdi |
| according to | saskaņā ar |
| because of | dēļ |
| close to | tuvu |
| due to | dēļ |
| except for | izņemot |
| far from | tālu no |
| inside of | iekšpusē |
| instead of | vietā |
| near to | pie |
| next to | blakus |
| outside of | ārpus |
| prior to | līdz |
| three words | trīs vārdi |
| as far as | cik |
| as well as | kā arī |
| in addition to | papildus |
| in front of | priekšā |
| in spite of | par spīti |
| on behalf of | vārdā |
| on top of | augšā |
| demonstrative pronouns | norādāmais prievārdi |
| this | šis/šī |
| that | tas/tā |
| these | šie/šīs |
| those | tie/tās |
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