Should I use the preposition before the infinitive verb form?

Question

I am a bit confused about using the infinitive of verbs.For example:> He used a map to find the village.Should I translate this as> Ha usato una mappa trovare il villaggio.OR> Ha usato una mappa a trovare il villaggio.I have seen examples of both and I don't know which is correct.

Answer 1

La traduzione corretta e': ha usato una mappa PER trovare il villaggio.

Prepositions connect 2 parts of a sentence and have deep cultural origin/meaning in any language, that's why it is difficult to translate/associate from one to another language and not least they have no logic at all.