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When we speak, we don't notice the words we use to connect sentences, but these particles are there, and they are important in grammar. These words are prepositions, something like the glue that holds words together and, with them, you can express the relationship between two ideas.
In Spanish there are a total of 23 prepositions, plus compound prepositions or prepositional locutions. So, if you want to know the list of prepositions in Spanish while you improve your knowledge of the language and prepare for your Spanish course in Spain, this is your article. You can also read this article in Spanish, French, Italian or Dutch.
What are Spanish prepositions?
Prepositions in Spanish, as in any other language, are words that establish a relationship between words in the same sentence. Their function is to connect nouns, pronouns or groups of words with other words to indicate a relationship of time, place, direction, cause or purpose in the same sentence.
On the other hand, there are Spanish prepositional locutions, a set of two or more words that function as a preposition. Although they are compound, they behave as a single preposition and have the same function as individual prepositions.
List of Spanish prepositions
Below you will find the list of Spanish prepositions:
- A (to/At)
- Ante (Before/In the presence of)
- Bajo (Under/Below)
- Cabe (Next to/Beside)
- Con (With)
- Contra (Against)
- De (Of/From)
- Desde (From/Since)
- Durante (During)
- En (In/On/Into/Upon/At/To)
- Entre (Among/Between)
- Hacia (Towards)
- Hasta (As far as/Until/Up to)
- Mediante (Through/By means of)
- Para (For/In order to)
- Por (For/Through/By)
- Según (According to)
- Sin (Without)
- So (Under)
- Sobre (On/Upon/About)
- Tras (After)
- Vía (Via/By way of)
- Versus (Versus/Against)
Although these are all the Spanish prepositions, some such as ‘cabe’ and ‘so’ are not used in spoken Spanish today; they appear sporadically in literary texts. Also, if you need a guide on how to use the prepositions por and para or the correct way to use contractions in Spanish, don't hesitate to visit our blog.