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variable left-hand connection. Prepositions of modern Ukrainian
language create a complex system.
According to their origin they are subdivided into primary
(original) and secondary (derivative) (первинні чи первісні і
вторинні чи похідні). Primary prepositions are rather few in
number: на, у, в, за, од, від, без, для, з, між, крізь, під, по, при,
про, ради, через, о (об). They differ from the secondary ones by
a greater degree of abstraction and generalization of their
meaning.
Secondary prepositions have been created from different
notional parts of speech quite recently. The biggest number make
up prepositions formed from adverbs (навколо, близько, згідно,
кругом, поблизу, поруч, etc.). The smaller number is formed by
the substantival prepositions (край, кінець, протягом, коло, etc.)
and verbal ones (завдяки, виключаючи).
According to their structural properties and morphological
characteristics Ukrainian prepositions are subdivided into simple
- with one root stem (за, перед, на, коло, між, etc.); compound
(складні) - formed from two or more simple prepositions
(поверх, заради, поза, щодо, з-поміж, etc.); composite
(складені) created from different categories of notional words
and prepositions (у напрямі до, незважаючи на, услід за, згідно
з, etc.).
Prepositions are differentiated according to their
semantics. The biggest group is made up of prepositions
possessing the meaning of space relations (значення
просторовості). The general quantity of Ukrainian prepositions
is above 220, with 137 being prepositions denoting spatial
relations.
Though the lexico-grammatical meaning, the
combinability and function of English prepositions are similar to
those of the Ukrainian counterparts, the role of prepositions in the
two languages is different. This difference, however, depends not
on the very prepositions, but on the nouns they introduce.

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