Prepositions (أحْرُفُ الْجَرِّ) are used with nouns in the genitive case to form preposition phrases. The following is a list of common Arabic prepositions:
مِنْ (from, than)
إلى (to, towards)
عَنْ (from, about)
عَلى (on, upon)
في (in, concerning, into)
بِ (by, in, at, with)
كَ (like)
لِ (لَ) (for, to, belonging to)
وَ (introducer of an oath)
مُذْ (since)
مُنْذُ (since)
حَتّى (until)
Examples:
إنْتَظَرْتُ
حَتَّى
الرَّابِعَةِ
I waited until four o'clock.
هُوَ في
الْمَكْتَبِ
He's in the office.
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