Path / Route
Through where or along which path?
Signification
The route, passage, medium, or spatial path through which movement, perception, or transmission takes place.
Comment le repérer
Ask what route or passage the event follows.
Exemples
through|across|along|via|over
through the park|across the bridge|via email
We walked through the forest.
Visual guide
EVENT follows a route WE -> through forest -> THERE WE -> across bridge -> THERE MESSAGE -> via email -> YOU Ask: through/along where?
Same route meaning, forms: preposition: through forest case suffix: forest-PATH route verb: cross bridge serial verbs: enter forest go particle: walk through
Vue par langue
Dans votre langue maternelle
Path is expressed with verbs such as traverser or prepositions like par, à travers, and le long de.
Nous avons traversé la forêt.
We crossed the forest.
Dans votre langue d’apprentissage
En anglais, le trajet se dit souvent avec des prépositions et des particules comme across, through, along, over et around.
We walked through the park.
through the park = chemin / trajet emprunté
Les apprenants choisissent parfois une préposition de lieu statique alors qu’il faut une préposition de trajet ou de passage.
Good transfer potential
This block behaves relatively similarly, so you can transfer intuition more safely between the two languages.