7 Prepositions of TIME

How to say OD- DO (desde-hasta) in English


If you know the start AND the end, you can say:


FROM June TO September, I will be in Brno.

FROM when I arrived TO when I left, it rained.


If you only know the start, say:


STARTING at 4 o ‘clock, I will be there (future)

                    (FROM December 15^th.)

I will be on holiday starting in July.

I will be making a trailer for the Orli theatre starting in January.

I will be reading a book by Stan the man starting this evening.


He has/had been here SINCE 4 o ‘clock. (past)

I have been playing the violin since I was 6.


If you only know the end, say:


She will be there UNTIL/(TIL) midnight.

He can talk until the cows come home.


Problems with deadlines (lhůty/plazos):


He has to find a flat BY the end of the month.


He will finish the report WITHIN a week.

Dasha will finish reading the book within 2 months.

The doctor gave him medicine, and he felt better within a few days.



WITHIN a period of time

BY a precise time/date


By mid-May


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I have been in Brno SINCE 2007.

We have been in this classroom since 8:30 (or maybe 8:45 for Agata).

I have to finish my homework by Monday night.