PREPOSITIONS DO, OD AND Z IN SLOVAK AND THEIR EQUIVALENTS IN SERBIAN

Abstract

The paper analyzed primary prepositions od, do and z in Slovak and their equivalents in Ser-bian. These prepositions are used with the genitive case. In both languages prepositions od and do are formally the same. The Slovak preposition do expresses contact, while the Serbian preposition do marks a position. The preposition do in both languages marks a temporal boundary, a point of the end of motion, a position, a movement towards the interior, a manner, an aim, a purpose, an approximate boundary. In the Serbian language the equivalent prepositions are do, u, na, za.The preposition od is a position preposition in both languages and is used to express a point of the beginning of an action, the time of the beginning of an action, a cause, a motive, an aim, a purpose. These meanings are expressed with prepositions od, od-do, od-po in Serbian. The preposition z expresses a place, a point of origin, a time when something begins, an origin, a motive, a cause, a matter, a material something is made of. The Serbian semantic equivalents of the Slovak preposition z are iz, s, sa, od. The paper also lists interference that occurs when these prepositions are used.