ABSTRACT
A preposition – una preposicion – is a word which is placed before another word or phrase in order to show the relationship between the words which come before or after it. Prepositions can express all sorts of relationships: figurative or literal, temporal or spatial. En has a number of usages in Spanish, and can translate the ideas ‘in’, ‘on’, ‘at’, ‘into’ and ‘onto’, in addition to some other English prepositions, according to the context. Mediante highlights the means used, and can be replaced by the compound preposition por medio de. Para is a very common preposition with several uses, most of which are connected with the idea of destination, or even destiny, in a figurative or literal sense. Prepositional phrases, sometimes called compound prepositions, consist of one or more prepositions combined with an adverb or a noun.
