under

Under it's a adverb very frequently used in our language. The term can refer to that or that which is located in a lower place with respect to another thing or individual. For example: "The pink shirt is stored in the bottom drawer, not that one", "My grandmother lives downstairs: I'm on the fifth floor and she is on the fourth", "I'm going to put the boxes under the bed".

The notion below also refers to what advances or heads to a lower sector, or what is located lower on comparison with something that is located higher: "The owner of the cabin tries to bring down the tree, but the neighbors are against it", "Due to the overturn, the driver was left with his head down", "We will have to walk an hour downhill to get to the shelter".

In certain texts, the mention below allows to refer to something that will appear below and that you will be warned once the reading progresses. A statement can begin by saying "The undersigned demand the cessation of attacks on freedom of the press ..." and, at the end of the text, include the signature of different people. By clarifying at the beginning that "the undersigned" support what is said in the text, the signatures in question are needed to specify who supports what is said.

Down is also used in exclamations that manifest the intention of abolish, repeal, ban, dismiss, remove or overthrow someone or something: Down with capitalism! Long live socialism! ", "Down with the police!", “We want foreign troops to leave our land! Down with the invaders! ".

Although we all know that our language is not the same in all Spanish-speaking countries, we tend to focus on accent differences and certain very particular regionalisms, thus ignoring the endless particularities present in each version from Spanish. The term under is precisely the protagonist of one of these differences, and is in the same group as adverbs above, behind Y go ahead.

At present, the New grammar of the Spanish language You agree to use in all of the following forms: below, below, above, above, behind, behind, in front of, and in front of. However, European Spanish opts for the buildings headed by below, over, behind Y in front of; In other words, the adverbs of place preferred by European Spanish speakers are all those that do not begin with to.

From the point of view of a Latin American person, saying «I put the book under the bed» or "My father was standing in front of the door" it is normal, does not sound bad or shows any signs of lack of correction. As of today, as mentioned in the previous paragraph, you shouldn't notice any erroras these forms have been accepted. However, in Spain these phrases sound bad, they cannot be intoned naturally, since when trying to insert them into everyday speech they seem to have one letter too many; and, in fact, it does.

On the other hand, this does not mean that these terms are never used in European Spanish. The examples just presented are sentences that indicate the location of a thing or a person, and in these cases Spain prefers adverbs that do not begin with to. However, when the intention is to refer to the direction in which a subject or object moves, or to its orientation, if it is correct to use under, above, go ahead Y behind ("walk forward", "Head down").