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Italian - Prepositions, Prepositional Contractions, To / In and From places, To Come and to Go

Prepositions

for	per
beside	accanto
ahead	avanti
among	fra di
before	prima di
against	contro
over	sopra
under	sotto
with	con
without	senza
across	attraverso
after	dopo
during	durante
except	eccetto
toward	verso

Prepositional Contractions

		il	lo	l'	la	i	gli	le
a	at, to	al	allo	all'	alla	ai	agli	alle
da	from, by	dal	dallo	dall'	dalla	dai	dagli	dalle
di	of	del	dello	dell'	della	dei	degli	delle
in	in	nel	nello	nell'	nella	nei	negli	nelle
su	on	sul	sullo	sull'	sulla	sui	sugli	sulle
con	with	col	collo	coll'	colla	coi	cogli	colle

Note: The only contractions for con that are still used nowadays are col and coi. But even these contractions are optional.

To / In and From places

	To	From
Country (sing)	in	da (+ contraction)
Country (plural)	negli	da (+ contraction)
City	a	da

To Come and to Go

**Venire-to come**
vengo	vehn-goh	veniamo	ven-ee-ah-moh
vieni	vee-en-ee	venite	ven-ee-teh
viene	vee-en-eh	vengono	ven-goh-noh

Vengo a scuola in macchina. I come to school by car. (It's a scuola instead of alla scuola because it's an idiom.)

To make a verb negative, add non before it: Non vengo a scuola in macchina. I don't come to school by car.

**Andare-to go**
vado	vah-doh	andiamo	ahn-dee-ah-moh
vai	vah-ee	andate	ahn-dah-teh
va	vah	vanno	vahn-noh

Other verbs conjugated in the same pattern as venire are:
avvenire - to happen, to occur
convenire - to convene
divenire - to become
provenire - to come from, to proceed
sovvenire - to help
svenire - to faint

Tenere (to keep) verbs are conjuaged very similarly to venire too, except the voi form ends in -ete instead of -ite:
appartenere - to belong
contenere - to contain
intrattenere - to entertain
mantenere - to maintain
ottenere - to obtain
ritenere - to retain
sostenere - to sustain, to support
trattenere - to withhold, to detain