# Para: purpose, destination, deadline, recipient

> id: grammar.prepositions.para-uses · category: grammar · depth: standard · levels: B1 · review: internally_reviewed

**Summary.** Purpose (para aprender), recipient (para ti), destination (salgo para Lima), deadline (para el viernes), standard of comparison (alto para su edad), opinion (para mí).

Para always points forward — toward a goal, an end, or a recipient. Purpose: estudio para el examen, una pastilla para el dolor; with an infinitive it means 'in order to': salí para comprar pan. Recipient or beneficiary: un regalo para vos, esto es para la vecina.

It also marks a destination (el bus para Yacuiba, salgo para Lima), a deadline (lo necesito para el lunes), and employment (trabajo para una ONG). After a date or time, para means 'by/for that point', not 'during'.

Two idiomatic uses: para mí / para ella introduces an opinion ('in my view'), and para + a noun flags a surprising standard of comparison: habla bien para ser principiante, alto para su edad. The head-to-head choices against por live in the dedicated por/para rule.

## Examples
- Necesito el informe para el lunes. — I need the report by Monday.
- Este paquete es para la vecina. — This package is for the neighbor.
- Esta caja es para vos; la necesito de vuelta para el viernes. — This box is for you; I need it back by Friday.

Related: grammar.prepositions.por-uses, grammar.prepositions.por-para, grammar.clauses.purpose-para-que

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