How to Express Prepositions: view article

on [day of the week] -> inessive-temporal (on Monday = u'one-sun-time'ar)
in [month, year, time of day] -> inessive-temporal (in the summer = u'summer'ar, in 2009 = 2009 u'year'ar, in the day = u'thrus-yio'ar)
in [a period of time] -> postposition mus (in an hour = rin kho-ra mus)
within [a certain point of time] -> dative-allative-terminative (within 3 hours = 3 thrio'kho-ra)
at [night, the weekend, a certain point of time] -> temporal (at night = u'xas-yio'ar, at the weekend = u'six-seven-time'ar/ u'no-work-time'ar, at 9 PM = 21 u'kho-ra'ar)
since [a certain point of time] -> elative-ablative-initiative (since 2009 = 2009 the'year'ar)
for [a period of time] -> superessive-perlative (for 2 years = 2 u'year'oth)
ago [a certain point of time] -> inessive-temporal + postposition yil (2 years ago = 2 u'year'ar yil)
before [a certain point of time] -> postposition yol (before 2004 = 2004 year yol)
from/to [a period of time] -> elative-ablative-initiative/dative-allative-terminative (from Monday to Friday = the'one-sun-time'ar thrio'five-sun-time'ar)
until [a certain point of time] -> dative-allative-terminative (until Friday = thrio'five-sun-time'ar, until 3 o'clock = 3 thrio'khora); number in genitive + thrio'thyor (until 3 o'clock = 3'ney thrio'thyor)
by [a certain point of time] -> postposition yol (by 9 PM = 21 kho-ra yol)

Place

in [room, book, vehicle] -> inessive-temporal (in the house = u'rekh'ar, in the book = u'mekh'ar, in the boat = u'khrith-theth-yion'ar)
in [picture, world] -> superessive-perlative (in the picture = u'picture'oth, in the world = u'rith'oth)
at, by, next to, beside, near -> pertingent/comitative-apudessive-adessive ([directly] at the house = rekh'ye, at the house = rekh'yyn)
at [events, work, school] -> inessive (at a party = u'party'ar, at work = u'xakh-the'ar)
on [a horizontal surface, floor] -> superessive-perlative (on the table = u'table'oth, on the first floor = u'first-floor'ar)
on [hanging from a vertical surface] -> pertingent (the picture on the wall = then wall'ye then picture)
on [direction] -> use adverb form (the man on the left = then syr miokh-lu-thoth)
on [vehicle, TV, radio] -> inessive (on the bus = u'bus'ar, on the TV = u'TV'ar)
under, below -> object in genitive + xys-nuth in inessive (under the house = rekh'ney u'xys-nuth'ar)
over, above -> object in genitive + som-nuth in inessive (above the house = rekh'ney u'som-nuth'ar)
across, through -> superessive-perlative (go through the house! = theth'um'yel then u'rekh'oth)
to, into [a room, building, country] -> illative-essive (go into the house! = theth'um'yel then tho'rekh'ar, I'm going to Germany = tho'dyoth-sa'ar theth-nyy)
to, onto [a surface] -> sublative-translative (onto the table = then tho'table'oth)
to, as far as [movement in a direction, reaching an object] -> dative-allative-terminative (to the house = then thrio'rekh)
towards [movement in a direction, not reaching an object] -> dative-allative-terminative (to the house = then thrio'rekh); object in genitive + thrio'thoth (to the house = rekh'ney thrio'thoth)
out of [a building] -> elative-ablative-initiative (out of the house = then the'rekh'ar); building in genitive + the'thyor'ar (out of the house = then rekh'ney the'thyor'ar)
from [a place or building] -> elative-ablative-initiative (from the house = then the'rekh'ar); place in genitive + the'man-nuth'ar [directly from] / the'nath'ar [from around] (from the [proximity of] the house = then rekh'ney the'nath'ar
off of [a surface] -> delative (come off of the house! = then the'rekh'oth nu'theth'um'yel)
between [two things] -> thing1 in genitive, thing2 in genitive, u'nuth-nuth'ar (between the man and the woman = then syr'ney then sakh'ney u'nuth-nuth'ar)

Misc.

with [a person] -> comitative-apudessive-adessive (I'm with him = sior'yyn nyy)
with [using an object] -> instrumental (I'm killing him with a sledgehammer = sior'ye [rin] lekh-khrakh'rokh lakh'nyy)
around, about [move in a circle] -> object in genitive + theth-xios
about [talk about, be about] -> delative (let's talk about sex = the'khiokh'oth thym'um'yyn)
despite -> superessive-perlative (despite me being rich = u'yon'oth, ye thrior nyy)
against -> dative + xa-myn-thoth (against the king = then thrio'thrar-ney-syr xa-myn-thoth)
opposite -> dative + xa-myn-thoth (opposite the house = then thrio'rekh xa-myn-thoth)

Verbs and What Case They Govern

thym-loth [argue, dispute about] -> delative
rin-mio [agree in] -> delative
khior-sum [succeed in] -> inessive
xikh-xiokh [oblige, force [someone] to] -> [accusative], dative
xa-myn-lu-khryokh-lu [forgive [someone] for something] -> [accusative], dative
khryl [curse [someone] with] -> [accusative], dative
thral [bless [someone] with] -> [accusative], dative

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