Location / La localisation
I am looking for a good source of information - lessons, vocabulary, phrases, etc. - to help me understand "localisation" better in French. I know there are tons of documents of prepositions and prepositional phrases that list things like "à côté de," "devant," etc., but I'm interested in really improving how I describe the precise location of things.

For example, if I wanted to say, "There's a scratch in the top right corner of the painting, approximately six centimeters from the right edge and about 4 centimeter from the top," or "The book is on the bottom shelf of the bookshelf in the back left corner of the library."

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I've seen some different ways to express these things and it's getting a little muddled for me. I would love to finally be able to understand how to say these kinds of things in French quickly and correctly. Thanks in advance for any help or advice you can give!

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Location / La localisation
I am looking for a good source of information - lessons, vocabulary, phrases, etc. - to help me understand "localisation" better in French.  I know there are tons of documents of prepositions and prepositional phrases that list things like "à côté de," "devant," etc., but I'm interested in really improving how I describe the precise location of things.

For example, if I wanted to say, "There's a scratch in the top right corner of the painting, approximately six centimeters from the right edge and about 4 centimeter from the top," or "The book is on the bottom shelf of the bookshelf in the back left corner of the library."

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I've seen some different ways to express these things and it's getting a little muddled for me. I would love to finally be able to understand how to say these kinds of things in French quickly and correctly.  Thanks in advance for any help or advice you can give!

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Merci Johannie. J'apprécie beaucoup votre réponse. C'est important de savoir même les petites choses comme "top/bottom" avant "left/right" - ça m'aide. Merci encore !

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I will try to answer in english. I don't know if there is rules to describe location in french and I don't know where you can find it on the web.  As french is my mother tongue I just feel it.
For your example, I will translate :
"Il y a une égratignure dans le coin supérieur droit du tableau, à environ six centimètres du bord droit et à 4 cm environ du haut" ou "Le livre se trouve sur la tablette inférieure de la bibliothèque, dans le coin arrière gauche de la bibliothèque. " You can notice we often say the bottom/top before the right or left things.

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https://www.francaisfacile.com/cgi2/myexam/liaison.php?liaison=_preposition_

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