This document provides prepositions of time and place in Portuguese with examples. It discusses prepositions used to indicate specific times like "at" and dates like "on" as well as periods of time like "in", "for", and "since". For place, it discusses prepositions used to indicate specific locations like "at" and "in" as well as positions relative to other objects like "above", "below", "beside", and "between". Over 50 different prepositions of time and place are defined and exemplified.

1. PREPOSIÇÕES DE TEMPO / LUGAR
LUGAR
AT – lugar específico:
• He’s at the bank.
• He lives at 59 Park Ave.
ON – rua, avenida (o que se parece com uma linha):
• The bank is on Park Ave.
• He lives on Park Avenue.
IN – cidades, estados, países:
• He lives in New York.
TEMPO
AT – horas:
• He’s arriving at 5 pm.
ON – datas, dias da semana:
• He’s arriving on Monday.
• His birthday is on Dec 2nd.
IN – meses, anos:
• It happened in 1989
PREPOSITIONS OF TIME
AFTER – depois de algo:
• We’re going to the movies after class.
AGO – há quanto tempo, no passado:
• He died 5 years ago.
AROUND – por volta de; não exatamente:
• Dinner is served around 7.
AT – horários específicos; datas comemorativas:
• Come at 6.

2. • At Christmas, there’s an exchange of gifts.
BEFORE – antes de algo:
• Make sure it’s the right size before buying it.
BETWEEN – indica dois pontos-limite:
• Please hand in your papers between Monday and Wednesday.
BY – não mais tarde que; limite máximo da ação:
• I’ll have finished all the reports by Friday.
DURING – por todo um período de tempo:
• He’s staying with us during the holidays.
FOR – duração:
• Katie has been married for 4 years.
FROM… TO… / FROM… UNTIL… / FROM… TILL… – duração entre dois
pontos específicos no tempo:
• Extra classes in the afternoon, from 2 to 6 / from 2 until 6. / from 2
till 6.
IN – meses, anos, estações:
• He was born in July / in 1973 / in the summer.
ON – dias da semana, datas:
• He was born on a Monday / on July 20th.
PAST – mais tarde do que:
• It’s twenty past five.
• He arrived past midnight.
SINCE – início da ação/situação:
• She’s been having dance classes since last year.
TILL/ UNTIL – final da ação / situação:
• Jenna’s staying in Brazil till / until November.
UP TO – limite máximo da duração:

3. • You can play computer games up to 1 hour a day.
WITHIN – dentro de um determinado período de tempo:
• This problem must be solved within two hours.
PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE
ABOVE – posição mais elevada, não necessariamente numa linha vertical:
• The sun was shining above us.
ACROSS – de um lado para o outro:
• There’s a beautiful bridge across that river.
AFTER – seguindo:
• The fat cat ran after the little mouse.
AGAINST – diretamente oposto:
• Sailing against the wind.
ALONG – numa linha paralela a algo, ou num ponto desta linha:
• Let’s walk along the beach.
• A tiny house along the river.
• Three checkpoints along the road.
AMONG – em um grupo:
• They came across in the homecoming, among other former students.
AROUND – em um círculo; não distante:
• The athletes ran around the square.
• He lives around here.
AT – local específico:
• Why don’t we meet at school?

4. BEFORE – na frente de:
• There he was, standing before me.
• “I promise before Almighty God that the evidence which I shall give
shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”.
BEHIND – numa posição anterior:
• She couldn’t see the play because she was sitting behind a bulky
man.
BELOW – posição inferior:
• Hypothermia, which is body temperature below 95 degrees, is life-
threatening.
BESIDE – contíguo; adjacente, ao lado:
• Come on, sit here beside me.
BETWEEN – entre dois pontos de referência:
• Park your car between those two poles.
BY – próximo; ao lado:
• He sat by the window, grabbed his book and forgot about the world
outside.
CLOSE TO – uma pequena distância:
• “I wish you were so close to me”.
DOWN – de posição mais elevada para outra abaixo:
• We watched the sun go down.
FOR – destino:
• This ship is leaving for Indonesia.
FROM – local de origem:

5. • Where are you from?
IN – num espaço interior:
• Somebody had left a wallet in the taxi.
IN FRONT OF – diretamente em frente:
• Avoid standing in front of doors. You could get knocked down
unexpectedly.
INSIDE – num espaço anterior (enfatiza o contraste com espaço exterior):
• Come inside. It’s very cold out there.
INTO – movimento para dentro:
• Three dogs ran into the small garden.
NEAR – a uma curta distância:
• Due to a restraining order, he can’t come anywhere near here.
NEXT TO – contíguo; adjacente, ao lado:
• Who sits next to you at school?
OFF – longe de algo, no exterior:
• She put on her hat and off she went!
ON – em uma superfície:
• Put all those books back on the shelf.
ONTO – movimento numa superfície:
• There was a myriad of worms crawling onto the dead body.
OPPOSITE – de frente para algo:

6. • Her grandparents used to live opposite the bank; that’s how they saw
the robbery.
OUT OF – indica movimento de saída ou lado externo:
• Get out of my room!
OUTSIDE – exterior:
• He parked outside so as not to pay $20.
OVER – posição mais elevada, sem haver contato:
• Your cat has jumped over my fence again!
PAST – após algo:
• Go past the supermarket; the bank is the second building.
ROUND – num movimento circular:
• The scouts were sitting round the campfire.
THROUGH – de uma extremidade a outra:
• There’s a shortcut to the nearest taxi rank. Just walk through the
park and you’ll be there in five minutes.
TO – destino:
• This ship is going to Indonesia.
TOWARDS – em direção a algo:
• The thief walked towards me and I ran away.
UNDER – verticalmente numa posição inferior:
• She found his wallet under the bed.
UP – indica movimento para ou em uma posição mais elevada:

7. • Stand up and say your name.