Prepositions in teaching Arabic, their places in use and cases in Turkish -a contrastive analysis-

m ABSTRACT In this study, prepositions in Arabic and cases in Turkish are explained and compared depending on the strong version of contrastive analysis. As a result of the analysis, similarities and differences between the two languages are presented. In addition to this, possible difficulties in learning prepositions of Arabic are handled in hierarchy of difficulty and solutions are offered to overcome them. Thus, it is aimed to simplify learning prepositions of Arabic for Turkish native speakers. Here are the prepositions in Arabic: Here are the cases in Turkish and suffixes of them: Nominative case : (no suffix) Accusative case : -i Dative case : -e Locative case : -de Ablative case : -den Genitive case (in the annexation) : -in Instrumental case : -le Equative case : -ce Directive case : -e doğru, -e kadar, -re Munitive case : -li Privative case : -sizIV The prepositions of Arabic that compare cases in Turkish are determined basing on the version learning easily ways of similarity between the native language and the foreign language, besides learning difficulty ways of differences between two languages. In the next stage the prepositions of Arabic that don't compare cases in Turkish were underlined. It is presented difficulties bring about different uses. It is suggested students to learn grammar rules exactly and practise.