Dothraki Prepositions

Case Assignment

Prepositions in Dothraki determine the case of the following word. With many prepositions you can choose from multiple cases, and the meaning of the preposition depends on the case it has assigned. In this sense the proposition function the same way as verbs. Here is listed, which cases each preposition can assign, and what meanings they subsequently attain. There are five different cases in Dothraki and all have prepositions that assign them.

	Nominative	Accusative	Genitive	Allative	Ablative
ha				for	from
haji					because of
hatif			facing, opposite to, before	to front of, to before	from front of, from before
irge			after	to behind	from behind
ki			by, because of
ma					with
mra	within			into	out of
oleth			over, above
oma					without
qisi	about, concerning
she	on, upon, in			onto	off of
torga			under
vi				through, along
yomme	across				in spite of

Stranded Prepositions

While prepositions are usually easy to place, they are not fronted even if the argument they modify is, and sometimes they also become stranded because the argument they should modify is dropped to avoid repetition. Dothraki does not allow stranded prepositios per se, but many common prepositions have pro-form versions, that can be used instead of normal preposition, when alone.

Fin vovoon yer laji memas? — "Which weapon do you fight with?"

Anha ez okrenegwin, majin e memras. — "I found a house and went inside."

If there is no pro-form version for the preposition used, there must be a noun or pronoun following the preposition. Often this means that a pronoun is used to denote to the argument that has been moved.

Osolethi fini vee mori yomme me vekha rekke. — "The bridge that you will travel across is there." (fini denotes to osoleth; me denotes to fini)

Pro-form prepositions

Normal	Pro-form
ha	mehas
irge	mirges
ki	mekis
ma	memas
mra	memras
oleth	molethas
she	meshes
torga	metorgas
vi	mevis