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[signal ravine]

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[honest furnace]

Can you give an example?

[wide wren]

If I understand your question correctly, this depends on the first verb.
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/french/french-i/french-i-prepositions/prepositions-before-infinitives

[hard crow]

Just look up the first verb in WordReference, it’ll give it to you

[twin wyvern]

ok

[hard crow]

Example

[hard crow]

The preposition shows up because of the first verb, not the last

Notice how all of these screenshots use « faire » with differing prepositions? That’s because the preposition doesn’t depend on « faire », it depends on « chercher, cesser, venir, etc »

[twin wyvern]

i know that. i just dont know which preposition to use if i have never used the verb

[twin wyvern]

im looking up pratiquer. i dont see a preposition

[hard crow]

If there’s no preposition, changes are it doesn’t usually take a verb in the first place

Are you using « pratiquer » as a translation for the English word ‘to practise’ like ‘I want to practise singing’?

You’d have to use « s’entrainer » for that:

[wicked sail]

I can't think of a situation where pratiquer is followed by an infinitive.
Were you thinking of s'entraîner, which takes à before the infinitive?

[hard crow]

« pratiquer » as a translation for ‘to practise’ mostly works in like religion or occupation

« Mon médecin pratique la médecine depuis dix ans. (My doctor’s been practising medicine for ten years.) »

[wicked sail]

Languages too.