Other prepositions describing position

There are many other useful prepositions that describe where something is situated.

These are some of the most commonly used in French:

dans	in	entre	between/in between
devant	in front of	contre	against
derrière	behind	chez	at (when talking about where someone lives)
sous	under	vers	towards
sur	on

dans

entre

between/in between

devant

in front of

contre

against

derrière

behind

chez

at (when talking about where someone lives)

sous

under

vers

towards

sur

These prepositions don’t require you to change the article before or after them. For example:

j’ai logé dans un appartement devant la cathédrale - I stayed in an apartment in front of the cathedral
le café se trouve entre l’office de tourisme et la poste - the café is between the Tourist Information office and the post office
il est rentré chez moi avant d’aller chez Antoine - he came back to my house before he went to Antoine’s house

Other familiar prepositions include:

avec

with

sans

without

pour

for

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