Translation
to; towards
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Examples
contendit.
He is hurrying towards the city.
Epistulam .
He sent a letter to his father.
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We are walking to the sea.
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Come to me.
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Up to this day nothing has changed.
"ad" always takes the ACCUSATIVE, with no exceptions to learn, which makes it one of the easiest prepositions in Latin. It covers motion towards something ("ad urbem", towards the city), the person a thing is sent or said to, and a limit in time or space ("ad hunc diem", up to this day).
Note what it does not do: to say "to" in the sense of giving something to someone, Latin uses the dative case on its own, with no preposition at all. "He gave the book to the boy" is "librum puero dedit", never "ad puerum".
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 3: ad, et, in and 11 more words.