User:WolfOfNorthumbria/Lessons/Prepositions

Prepositions are words that are used before pronouns, nouns or their equivalents to express position, movement or circumstance relative to or affecting them. Prepositions in Northumbrian are more complicated than those found in Scots and English.

Phonotactic variants
The variants frae, ti, wi, inti, onti, i and o are typically used before consonantal sounds.

The variants frev, tiv, wiv, intiv, ontiv, iv and o are typically used before vowel sounds or before an unstressed syllable beginning with an h-sound, as in an historic. The h may then become silent or is at least very weakly articulated.

The variants fren, tin, win, intin, ontin, in and o may be used before a short vowel in some dialects, with the -v variants being used before long vowels.

Inflected prepositions
Some prepositions inflected with the third person inanimate pronoun, it