Words / cls.spa.preposicion

a

Identity

Lemma: a
Part of speech: cls.spa.preposicionread off the URL segment (in turn parsed from the LEXEME id by lib/routes.ts’s posAndLemmaOf), because Lexeme carries no pos field yet (LAN-217/LAN-274). This route is built to prefer node.data.pos as the field once that migration lands; until then, the id is the only source and this line says so rather than hiding it.
Frequency rank: not recorded
Gloss: The preposition marking a goal or a recipient, and the marker placed before a direct object that names a specific person.

This word does two jobs the graph keeps carefully apart. As a preposition it introduces a goal or a recipient. As a marker it stands before a direct object that names a human being, or an animal treated as an individual, and that is specific, which is the differential object marking the animacy record describes. The marker use is the only place in the clause where the animacy ranking is visible at all, and it is the only preposition that fuses with the definite article besides one other.

Sourced from:

Nueva gramática de la lengua española (2009)grammarentryno public licenceretrieved 2026-08-04by Real Academia Española and Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt and Benjamin)grammarentryno public licenceretrieved 2026-08-04by John Butt and Carmen Benjamin

Paradigm

Non-finite forms (no person, so no coordinate in the five-column grid):

alThe obligatory fusion of the goal preposition with the masculine singular definite article into one written word.
aThe marker placed before a direct object that names a specific person, and separately the preposition marking a goal or a recipient.

Class memberships

has-a edges to CLASS objects (06-surface.md §5.2) — the door back into the grammar. Subsumption (is-a) is not available here: it is same-type-only (A3), so a LEXEME cannot is-a a CLASS.

preposicióninherent

Examples

Each example declares its dialect and tier, per 06-surface.md §5.2 (“the interface ranks and labels rather than silently mixing registers”).

No examples are recorded for this lexeme (Lexeme.examples is optional; absent key = unstated, per lib/schema/nodes.ts’s own note — never a stub sentence invented to fill the section).

Where the grammar discusses this word

05-vocabulary.md §10.9’s own requirement: “a vocab entry links back to the grammar.” has-a edges to CATEGORY and inbound selects edges, both real graph edges rather than a generated cross-reference.

No CATEGORY membership or selects edge is recorded for this lexeme.