Bengali Language/Expressing locative information
Whereas English uses prepositions or prepositional phrases to denote positions with respect to a reference point, Bengali uses postpositions, that is, the funcional word is placed after (post) the noun phrase, or postpositional phrases, to do the same job.
| English preposition | Bengali postposition | Example |
|---|---|---|
| On | -er upore | Tebiler upore on the table |
| Under | -er nIche/tolaay | Tebiler nIche / Tebiler tolayy under the table |
| to the right of | Example | Example |
| to the left of | Example | Example |
| beside / next to | Example | Example |
| in front of | Example | Example |
| behind | Example | Example |
| facing | Example | Example |
| at the top of | Example | Example |
| at the bottom of | Example | Example |
| in the middle of | Example | Example |
| at the center of | Example | Example |
| at the edge of | Example | Example |
| in the corner of | Example | Example |
| at the end of | Example | Example |
| around | Example | Example |
| inside of | Example | Example |
| outside of | Example | Example |
| between | Example | Example |