English prepositions have been considered to be as one of the most difficult structures for students to master especially because prepositional systems across languages vary to a considerable degree and bilingual dictionaries offer inadequate portrayal of prepositional semantics (Brala, 2013). A cognitive semantic approach offers insights that could be helpful in a pedagogical context, so the aforementioned approach has been taken into account while presenting the English prepositions over and above and their distinct senses: Contact Sense (i.e. Covering Sense), Control Sense of over and Superior Sense of above. Additionally, this paper presents research conducted with the goal of examining whether the students of English language (the second and the third academic year) understand the difference between the English prepositions above and over in sentences conveying the Contact Sense and the Control Sense and how the English prepositions above and over are translated into the Croatian language. The results indicate that the participants make more errors in sentences conveying the Contact Sense than the Control Sense. However, a number of alternative mechanisms applied while translating the sentences is higher in the case of sentences conveying the Control Sense. When it comes to the research projects in the future, I would suggest conducting a research that deals with the methods applied while teaching and learning English prepositions in order to hopefully define the factors that will make learning of English prepositions easier and faster.