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===Adpositions=== Hurrian contains many expressions that denote spatial and abstract relations and serve as [[adposition]]s, most of them built on the dative and genitive cases. They are almost exclusively postpositions – only one preposition (''āpi'' + dative, "for"), is attested in the texts from Hattusha. All adpositions can themselves generally be in the allative, rarely in the dative or in the "e-case". Some examples: ''N-fa āyita'' or ''N-fenē āyē'' (in the presence of; from ''āyi'' "face"). ''N-fa etīta'' or ''N-fa etīfa'' (for, because of; from ''eti'' "body, person"), ''N-fenē etiyē'' (concerning), ''N-fa furīta'' (in sight of; from ''furi'', "sight, look"), and only in Hattusha ''N-fa āpita'' (in front of; from ''āpi'', "front"). Besides these, there is ''ištani'' "space between," which is used with a plural possessive pronoun and the locative, for "between us/you/them", e.g. ''ištaniffaša'' (between us, under us).
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