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

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