The most common French prepositions

42prepositions

9.3%of everyday speech

#3rank of the commonest

#	Word	English	Say it	Share
3	de	of	duh	2.936%
12	à	to	ah	1.434%
18	en	in	ahN	1.018%
24	pour	for	poor	0.862%
31	dans	in	dahN	0.525%
41	avec	with	ah-VEHK	0.437%
46	au	to the	oh	0.386%
52	sur	on	sewr	0.327%
55	comme	like	kawm	0.301%
77	par	by	pahr	0.181%
116	sans	without	sahN	0.098%
119	avant	before	ah-VAHN	0.095%
129	après	after	ah-PREH	0.087%
131	aux	to the (pl)	oh	0.085%
143	chez	at the home of	shay	0.076%
145	depuis	since	duh-pew-EE	0.074%
195	entre	between	ahNtr	0.051%
222	pendant	during	pahN-DAHN	0.042%
249	contre	against	kohNtr	0.038%
263	sous	under	soo	0.035%
325	vers	towards	vehr	0.027%
328	devant	in front of	duh-VAHN	0.026%
414	derrière	behind	deh-RYEHR	0.021%
508	dès	from	deh	0.017%
528	sauf	except	sohf	0.016%
713	hors	outside	awr	0.011%
751	selon	according to	suh-LOHN	0.011%
829	travers	through	trah-VEHR	0.010%
1133	envers	towards	ahN-VEHR	0.007%
1168	durant	during	dew-RAHN	0.007%
1208	parmi	among	pahr-MEE	0.007%
1238	lors	at the time (lors de)	lawr	0.006%
1291	afin	in order to	ah-FAN	0.006%
1378	malgré	despite	mahl-GRAY	0.006%
1736	auprès	close to	oh-PREH	0.004%
1877	concernant	concerning	kohN-sehr-NAHN	0.004%
2227	quant	as for (quant à)	kahN	0.004%
2942	hormis	except for	or-MEE	0.000%
2946	via	via; by way of	VYAH	0.000%
2947	excepté	except	ek-sep-TAY	0.000%
2948	moyennant	in exchange for	mwah-yeh-NAHN	0.000%
2953	jusqu'à	until; up to	zhews-KAH	0.000%

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