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| The preposition "to" may have, in English, several values, as follows:
| | #REDIRECT [[English prepositions#To]] |
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| !rowspan=2|Value
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| !rowspan=2|UNL
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| !colspan=2|Examples
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| !English
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| !UNL
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| |-
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| |complement (necessary argument)
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| |obj
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| |refer to a dictionary
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| |obj(refer, dictionary)
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| |-
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| |direction (towards)
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| |to
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| |go to the city
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| |to(go, city)
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| |-
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| |final place
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| |plt
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| |go to the bottom
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| |plt(go, bottom)
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| |-
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| |purpose
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| |pur
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| |go to discuss
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| |pur(go, discuss)
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| |-
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| |addressee
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| |gol
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| |answer to John
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| |gol(answer, John)
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| |-
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| |final state
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| |gol
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| |nursed her back to health
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| |gol(nurse, health)
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| |-
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| |final time
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| |tmt
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| |worked from nine to five
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| |tmt(work, 5)
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| |-
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| |comparison
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| |bas
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| |superior to the others
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| |bas(superior, others)
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| |-
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| |degree or extent
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| |man
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| |smooth to the touch
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| |man(smooth, touch)
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| |-
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| |manner
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| |man
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| |parallel to the road
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| |man(parallel, road)
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| == Observations ==
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| The preposition "to" must be replaced by its equivalents in the following situations:
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| ;to = against
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| :Their faces pressed to the windows = Their faces pressed against the windows
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| ;to = of
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| :looked for the top to the jar = looked for the top of the jar
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| ;to = before
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| :ten to five = ten before five
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