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Rh (3) The preposition, “without," governs the dative in the singular, but the accusative in the plural: as,

The words (around)  or  (across),  (beside),  (along),  or  (towards),  (owing to),, and [] (as to, or concerning), although really nouns, are used where prepositions are used in English. Being nouns, they are followed by the genitive case.

The prepositions (in) and  (with) become  and  before the article: e.g.,  in