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IN O AT?

A vegades ιs difνcil de saber quan la preposiciσ catalana a es tradueix en anglθs per in o at. (Recordem que es tradueix sempre per to quan significa cap a.) Esperem que les taules aquν sota puguin resoldre alguns dels dubtes. Es divideixen en sis categories: LLOC, POSICIΣ RELATIVA, TEMPS, EL COS, ABSTRACCIONS i MISCEL⋅LΐNIA. Els nϊmeros representen freqόθncia d'ϊs en el Corpus of Contemporary American English (http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/).

Observem que la majoria d'aquests girs contenen l'article definit; els que tenen un article indefinit apareixen en lletra cursiva i els que no tenen cap article, en lletra negreta.

LLOC

in the world — 35959
in a world — 3171
at home — 30685
in the home — 2300
at the home — 728
in school — 9447
at school — 5295
in the school — 3011
at the school — 1975
in the house — 8522
at the house — 1501
in the hospital — 3985
at the hospital — 1921
in the corner — 3043
at the corner — 1312
in the streets — 2835
in the street — 2781
in the office — 2523
at the office — 1526
in the church — 2380
at the church — 651


POSICIΣ RELATIVA

at the end — 27539
in the end — 12017
in the back — 10380
at the back — 2837
in the center — 6064
at the center — 5119
at the bottom — 5316
in the midst — 4990
 in the distance — 3813
in the background — 3535
in the north — 3578
at the edge — 3215
in a while — 3215
in the beginning — 3152
in the east — 2972
at the base — 2374
at the foot — 1848
at the front — 1445
 at the head — 1430
at the level — 1366
at the height — 1319
at the point — 1317
at the side — 791
at the forefront — 732
at the rear — 625
at the root — 579
at the edges — 556
at the peak — 549


TEMPS

at the time — 26832
in the past — 15683
at a time — 15459
at night — 15313
in time — 13614
in the future — 11032
in the morning — 15340
at times — 9176
 at the beginning — 7230
at the moment — 6699
in a moment — 6338
in the meantime — 5058
in the afternoon — 3227
in the summer — 5216
in the year — 3221
in the day — 2701
 in the years — 2578
in the night — 2405
in the days — 2366
at the start — 2323
in the winter — 2293
in a minute — 1861
at the outset — 1350
in an instant — 1061


EL COS

in the eye — 2722
in the eyes — 2528
in the hands — 3436
 at the heart — 3196
in the heart — 2518
in the head — 2328
 at the hands — 1500
at the head — 1430
at heart — 1154


ABSTRACCIONS

in the case — 11737
in case — 7900
in the context — 5209
in the book — 4348
in a sense — 4101
in the business — 3549
in the war — 3357
 in the game — 3129
in the program — 2633
in the media — 2632
in the league — 2582
in the movie — 2557
in the company — 2538
 in the event — 2445
in the film — 2347
at the helm — 810
at the meeting — 751
at the rate — 674
in the process — 9146


MISCEL⋅LΐNIA

in a way — 12745
in the way — 9546
in trouble — 6207
in the dark — 5549
 in the family — 3902
at the age — 3795
in the course — 3778
 in power — 3513
in charge — 3502
in the sun — 3042

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