Grammatica - loco

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Prepositions
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Hij is het land uit gezet. He was deported.
Hij kwam de kamer in/binnen. He came into the room.
Roodkapje liep het bos Little Red Riding Hood walked
helemaal door. right through the forest.
De auto reed de hoek om. The car drove around the
corner.
Gaat u de eerste brug rechts Cross the first bridge on the
over. right.
We reden toen de hoofdweg We then drove up onto the
op. main road.
Ze voeren de zeeën over. They sailed across the seas.
We fietsten het kanaal langs. We cycled along the canal.
De jongens roeiden de rivier The boys rowed down the
af. river.
Hij gaat de berg op/af. He is going up/down the
mountain.
Je moet die kant op/uit. You must go that way.
For prepositions following ergens, nergens and overal see 8.6.9.
13.2.2
Use of heen with prepositions
Several prepositions are used together with heen (which follows the noun)
to indicate direction. 7 The meaning of a preposition + noun + heen is
similar to that explained in 13.2.1 above, but it may express a figurative
meaning, as some of the following examples illustrate:
Hij liep dwars door het perkje He walked right through the
met bloemen heen. flower bed.
door de eeuwen heen over the centuries
7 Heen on its own, i.e. not used in combination with another preposition but as a
separable prefix, is synonymous with naartoe (see 10.4) but is higher style:
We gaan er morgen heen/naartoe.
We are going there tomorrow.