Prepositions Srpski - English

Prepositions followed only by the genitiv case
Srpski	+ Genitiv	Example
bez	without	bez sumnje	without doubt
blizu	near
do	up to
duž	alongside	duž obale	along the coast
ispod	below	ispod stola	under the table
ispred	in front of	ispred ispita	right before the exam
iz	out of
iza	behind, after	iza vrata, iza kiše	behind the door, after the rain
između	between
iznad	above, over	iznad svega	above all
izvan	besides, out of
kod	at the home of	kod kuće
kraj	alongside, beside
mesto, umesto, namesto	instead of	mesto mene	instead of me
nakon	after	nakon nekoliko dana	after several days
nasred	in the middle of	nasred puta	in the middle of the road
niže	below
od	from, of, since
oko	around
osim, sem	except, besides	svi su došli sem Olge	everyone came except Olga
pokraj	along, besides	pokraj toga	besides that, in spite of that
pomoću	with the help of
pored	alongside, besides
posle	after	posle posla	after work
pre	before [time]
preko	across	preko reke	across the river
prekoputa	across from, opposite	prekoputa hotela	opposite the hotel
protiv	against	ploviti protiv struje	sail against the current
radi	for the sake of, because of	radi toga	because of that
spram	opposite, in front of
sred, usred	in the middle of	usred grada	in the middle of town
suprot	opposite
širom	throughout	širom sveta	throughout the world
tokom	during	tokom godine	during the year
usled	because of
van	outside	van kuće, van zemlje	outdoors, abroad
više	above
vrh	above
zbog	because of

Prepositions + dativ only
Srpski	+ Dativ
ka, k	towards, to
uprkos	in spite of

Prepositions + lokativ only
Srpski	+ Lokativ
pri	by, near

Prepositions followed by more than one case
Srpski	+ Genitiv	+ Dativ	+ Akuzativ	+ Instrumental	+ Lokativ	Example
među			[motion towards] among, between	among
mimo	in spite of, contrary to		past
nad			[motion towards] above	above
pod			[motion towards] under	under
pred			[motion towards] in front of, [time] just before	in front of
prema		towards			according to, opposite
na			on to		on, at	na plaži [lok]
o			on to, [motion towards] against		on, agains, concerning, about
po			[to fetch] , for, during		about, on, after
sa, s	from off			with
u	in the case of		to, into, at, [time] on		in	u mom gradu [lok], u zatvorskoj celiji [lok]
za	during the time of		for, behind, [time] within,	behind, following along behind		to je za tebe [aku]