Pashto Prepositions

If you're trying to learn Pashto Prepositions which is also called Pashtu, check our courses about time and place prepositions and and demonstrative pronouns... to help you with your Pashto grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Pashto. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!

Pashto Prepositions

Learning the Pashto Prepositions is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Pashto language. But first we need to know what the role of Prepositions is in the structure of the grammar in Pashto.
Pashto prepositions link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition. Here are some examples:

English Prepositions	Pashto Prepositions
Prepositions	herwef adafh - حروف اضافه
inside the house	dekwer ph dakhel kṣ̌a - دکور په داخل کښی
outside the car	demwṭr nh bher - دموټر نه بهر
with me	lh ma serh - له ما سره
without him	b heghh - بې هغه
under the table	demaz laneda - دمیز لاندی
after tomorrow	seba nh werwesth - سبا نه وروسته
before sunset	delmer lewadelw nh wṛaneda - دلمر لویدلو نه وړاندی
but I'm busy	megr zh mesrewf am - مګر زه مصروف یم

As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Prepositions in Pashto has a logical pattern. Locate the Prepositions above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Pashtu.

List of Prepositions in Pashto

Below is a list of the Time place and demonstrative pronouns in Pashto placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Pashto vocabulary.

English Prepositions	Pashto Prepositions
about	ph aṛh - په اړه
above	pas - پاس
across	ph taradada - په تیریدادی
after	werwesth - وروسته
against	per ded - پر ضد
among	ph menz k - په منځ کې
around	ph shawekhewa k - په شاوخوا کې
as	d - د
at	ph - په
before	mekheka - مخکی
behind	ter sha - تر شا
below	lanedy - لاندي
beneath	lanedy - لاندي
beside	ter ceng - تر څنګ
between	ter menz - تر منځ
beyond	pewra ghaṛh - پوری غاړه
but	khew - خو
by	lh khewa - له خوا
despite	serh leda - سره لدی
down	laneda - لاندی
during	ph jeraan ka - په جریان کی
except	perth lh - پرته له
for	leparh - لپاره
from	lh - له
in	ph - په
inside	ph dennh k - په دننه کې
into	ph - په
near	nẓ̌da - نږدی
next	ratelwenk - راتلونكې
of	d - د
on	ph - په
opposite	ph wṛanedy - په وړاندي
out	bher - بهر
outside	nh bher - نه بهر
over	ph - په
per	ph - په
plus	jem' (awezaa kewl) - جمع (یوځای کول)
round	gerd - ګرد
since	lh heghh mhalh - له هغه مهاله
than	baa (werseth) - بیا (ورسته)
through	lh lar - له لارې
till	ter - تر
to	th - ته
toward	th - ته
under	laneda - لاندی
unlike	ph khelaf - په خلاف
until	ter heghh ch - تر هغه چې
up	pas - پاس
via	lh lar - له لارې
with	serh - سره
within	ph dennh k - په دننه کې
without	b - بې
two words	dewh kelm - دوه کلمې
according to	d weyna lh mekh - د وينا له مخې
because of	leda amelh chh - لدی امله چه
close to	th nẓ̌da - ته نږدی
due to	lh amelh - له امله
except for	perth lh - پرته له
far from	hakhewa - هاخوا
inside of	dennh - دننه
instead of	d hegh ph zaa - د هغې په ځاى
near to	nẓ̌dey - نږدي
next to	ceng th - څنګ ته
outside of	bher - بهر
prior to	wṛaned - وړاندې
three words	dera leghatewnh - دری لغاتونه
as far as	ter heghh zayh - تر هغه ځايه
as well as	aw hemdarengh - او همدارنګه
in addition to	ph hegh berserh d - په هغې برسېره د
in front of	ph wṛaned - په وړاندې
in spite of	deda nh 'elawh - ددی نه علاوه
on behalf of	ph asetazeytewb d - په استازيتوب د
on top of	ph ser d - په سر د
demonstrative prepositions	'esharewa demaar - عشاروی ضمایر
this	da - دا
that	heghh - هغه
these	da (jem'e) - دا (جمع)
those	heghh (jem'e) - هغه (جمع)

Time place and demonstrative pronouns have a very important role in Pashto, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with the Pashtu Prepositions,