Estonian:Adpositions
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| Finno-Ugric | Baltic-Finnic |  Estonia European Union |
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Estonian is a language which relies quite often on both prepositions and postpositions with other cases to add to the meaning.
Prepositions
Prepositions are placed before the noun in the given case.
Genitive
The following require the genitive case.
| läbi | through | ma läksin läbi ukseuks.GEN | I walked through the door. |
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| peale | beside | - | - |
| üle | over | lehm hüppas üle kuukuu.GEN | the cow jumped over the moon. |
| ümer | around | ma jooksin ümber majamaja.GEN | I ran around the house |
Abessive
The following require the abessive case.
| ilma | without | ma läksin kooli ilma minu sõbratasõber.ABE | I went to school without my friend. |
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| Estonian pages
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| Introduction · Adpositions · Cases · Conjunctions · Lexicon · Numbers · Modal Verbs · Pronouns · Verbs · Vocabulary |
| Finno-Ugric Languages | |
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| Baltic-Finnic | Estonian ·  Finnish ·  Ingrian ·  Karelian ·  Livonian ·  Veps ·  Votic ·  Võro
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| Permic |  Komi ·  Udmurt
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| Ugric |  Hungarian ·  Khanty ·  Mansi
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| N/A |  Erzya ·  Mari · Moksha
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