Over

French translations of this preposition, prefix, verbal & nominal particle: au-dessus de, chez soi, re-, encore, sur-, dé-, trans-

Preposition / Adverb

• I walked over the bridge.
• I walked over to his office.
• I just walked over.
• I just walked it over.

over vs. above

• Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high...

Everyone knows Dorothy's song from the movie Wizard of Oz (1939). (movie version of Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900)

A photographer I've met in Paris has named her blog "Somewhere over my rainbow", an image that I must admit has grown on me over the years.

Over has the sense of beyond (au délà de)

• We flew above the North Sea.
• We flew over the North Sea.

Prefix

• overlook
• oversee
• overrule
• overtake -- dépasser