โข ์์ can mean on, above, over, and even up, but the surrounding words make it clear what is meant.
There are also other related words when more clarity is needed.
- ์ธ๋ ์์ ์ง = a house on the hill
- ์ธ๋ ์๋ฅผ ๋ ์๊ฐ๋ ์๋ค = birds flying over the hill.
- ์์ธ ์์ ๋ํ๋ ์๋ผ => ์์ธ ์๊ณต์ ๋ํ๋ ์๋ด = a large flock of birds that appeared over Seoul. (์๊ณต = airspace)
- ๋ณด๋ค ์์ = further/higher up. (๋ ์์ is more common than ๋ณด๋ค ์์, and ๋ ๋ง์ด than ๋ณด๋ค ๋ง์ด)
e.g. ์ฐ์ ์คํฑ๊น์ง๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ๊ฐ์ง ๋๋ฌด๊ฐ ๋ค์์ฌ ์๊ณ ๋ ์์๋ ์ฃผ๋ก ์๋๋ฌด๋ค์ด ์๋ค.
โข ์์ is just one of the many ways ์ can be used.
"X(์) ์์" means in front of X, while ์์ or ์์ชฝ์ by itself means "in/at the front".
- ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ์์ ์๋ฐฉ์ฐจ๊ฐ ์๋ค = A firetruck is in front of the building.
- ๊ฑด๋ฌผ(์) ์์ ๋์ ๋๋ก์ด๋ค = The front of the building is a large thoroughfare.
- (์ํํธ์) ์์ชฝ์ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค์ด ์๋ค = There is an office in the front area (of the apartment) (์ชฝ = direction, area).
โข along = (-์/๋ฅผ) ๋ฐ๋ผ(์) (๋ฐ๋ผ(์) can also mean "following after someone/something).
- ๋๋ ๊ธธ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ(์) ๊ฑท๊ณ ์์๋ค = I was walking along the street.
โข among = (-์) ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ(์) / ์ค(์).
- ์ง์ ๋๋ฌด๋ค ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ(์) ์๋ค = The house is placed among the trees.
โข is in front of each other / faces each other = ๋ง์ฃผ๋ณด๋ค (used for both people and things). There are also other words and phrases like ๋ง์ฃผ ์ ์๋ค (stand facing each other), ๋ง์ฃผํ๋ค, and so on.
- ๊ธธ์ ์ฌ์ด์ ๋๊ณ ๋ง์ฃผ๋ณด๋/๋ง์ฃผ ์์๋ ๋ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ = Two buildings facing each other across the street.
(๋ง์ฃผ ์ ์๋ค = short for ๋ง์ฃผํ๊ณ ์ ์๋ค. ๋ง์ฃผํ๋ค and ๋ง์ฃผ๋ณด๋ค are synonyms in this usage.)