The words напротив, впереди/сзади, внутри/снаружи, возле, вокруг are adverbs when used with verbs, and describe the action; when used with nouns in genitive case they are playing the role of prepositions.
But in both cases they serve to express spatial relationships between objects.
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But in both cases they serve to express spatial relationships between objects.
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