French verbs requiring a preposition
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Some French verbs need the preposition dans in front of a noun.
| apprendre quelque chose dans un livre | to learn something from a book | |
| avoir dans l’esprit / l’idée que | to have a feeling that | |
| avoir dans l’idée / la tête de | to have a mind to | |
| boire qqchose dans (une tasse, un verre) | to drink something out of (a cup, glass) | |
| chercher dans (un carton, tiroir) | to look in (a box, drawer) | |
| copier quelque chose dans un livre | to copy something from a book | |
| courir dans (l’herbe, l’eau) | to run through (the grass, water) | |
| coûter dans (les 20 euros) | to cost about (20 euros) | |
| entrer dans (une salle, un appartement) | to enter (a room, an apartment) | |
| errer dans (la ville, la campagne) | to wander around/through (town, the countryside) | |
| fouiller dans (ses poches) | to look through (one’s pockets) | |
| lire dans (le journal) | to read in (the paper) | |
| manger dans une assiette manger dans la main à qqun |
to eat off of a plate to eat out of someone’s hand |
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| mettre son espoir dans | to pin one’s hopes on | |
| partir dans (20 minutes) partir dans (les montagnes, la plage) |
to leave in (20 minutes) to leave for (the mountains, beach) |
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| pleuvoir dans (la ville, le désert) | to rain in (town, the desert) | |
| prendre qqchose dans (un carton, un tiroir) | to take something from (a box, drawer) | |
| reconnaître qqun dans (la foule, le distance) | to recognize someone in (the crowd, the distance) | |
| regarder dans (la boîte, le frigo) | to look in (the box, the fridge) | |
| verser (de l’eau, du vin) dans un verre | to pour (water, wine) into a glass | |
| vivre dans (la misère, la peur) | to live in (poverty, fear) |
Related lessons
- Lesson on dans
- Introduction to prepositions
- Introduction to verbs
- Nouns
- Stressed pronouns
- Verbs with other prepositions
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