PREPOSITIONS AFTER NOUNS, VERBS & ADJECTIVES

NOUNS + ...
FOR A demand for
A need for
A reason for
TO An attitude to
A solution / answer / reply to
A reaction to


VERBS + ...
AT To smile, laugh at
To look, glare, stare at
To shout at
To aim, point at
ABOUT To care about
To tell sb about sth
To think, dream, talk, read about
To warn about
To be concerned about
OF
To think, dream of sth/sb
To take care of sth/sb
To approve of
To apologise for sth
ON To depend, rely on
To insist on
To spend (money) on
IN To believe in
To succeed in
To be involved in
To result in
TO To go to
To want to
Would like to
To give sth to sb
To listen, talk, speak, write to sb/sth
To belong to
FOR To look for sth/sb (= chercher)
To beg, ask for sth (but to ask sb sth)
To wait for
To pay sb for sth
To thank, forgive sb for
FROM To suffer from
To protect sb/sth from
To benefit from
To differ from
LIKE To look like sb (=ressembler)


ADJECTIVES + ...

TO important to sb
contrary, similar to 
indifferent, blind, nice, kind, careful, good, generous, polite, friendly to sb
married, engaged to
addicted to
OF nice, kind, good, generous, polite of sb to do sth
afraid, frightened, scared of
fond, proud, ashamed, jealous, envious of
AT good, bad, excellent at
angry, annoyed, furious at sb for doing sth
ABOUT angry, annoyed, furious about sth
excited, worried, upset, happy about
certain, wrong, right, sorry, upset about
WITH delighted, pleased, satisfied, disappointed with
fed up, bored with
angry, annoyed, happy, obsessed with
IN interested in
ON dependent on
FOR famous for
responsible for
sorry for


Miscellaneous
In the picture
In the top / bottom / middle
In the foreground / background
In the end (=finally)
In the beginning (= au début)

On the right / left
On the floor / pavement…
On holiday / vacation
On the contrary, …
On the opposite, …

At the top / bottom
At the end of sth (=à la fin)
At the beginning of sth (=au début de qch)
At the cinema, supermarket, school…


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