ABSTRACT
A preposition is an uninflected part of speech used with different cases of declinable words. It shows the relationship of that word with the main word of the phrase that is usually a verb (eiti į darbą ‘˜(to) go to work’, padėti ant stalo ‘˜(to) put on the table’) and sometimes an adjective (panašus į motiną ‘˜similar to mother’), noun (kava su pienu ‘˜coffee with milk’), adverb (toli nuo namų ‘˜far from home’), numeral (vienas iš mūsų ‘˜one of us’). In modern Lithuanian prepositions are used with three cases: genitive, accusative and instrumental. Some dialects use prepositions also with dative. Prepositions differ in their meaning. They are usually modifiers, e.g. place, time, manner, cause, scope. Prepositions can be of different structure.
