square alignment of prepositions

I would like to mirror this format of alignment, looks like a matrix but has no brackets.

maybe start a column exception?

• Is it only about the alignment or also about the content? Because the alignment is simply a \begin{array}{*{4}{cl}} or similar. – campa Mar 9 at 15:23
• @campa ty hehe I'm new to LaTeX, about the content I've managed to do '''\textcircled{\raisebox{-0.9pt}{etc}}''' , mhm, but how would I sort them through the columns? I only know of arrays like [ \left( \begin{array}{ccc} x \\ y\\ z \end{array} \right)] and such – Bruno Stühler Mar 9 at 15:30
• Does this help? Auto-numbering table environment with aligned numbers. BTW, what do you mean by 'prepositions' (Präposition auf Deutsch)? – Alan Munn Mar 9 at 15:33
• @AlanMunn yeah I'm not really looking for a table but ty, and unfortunately it's not from german xD well a mathematical preposition would be x>0, 2 isn't a prime number... I get lost at titles hehe – Bruno Stühler Mar 9 at 15:58
• If you're using this for exam/worksheet questions, then perhaps the tasks package might be of some help. There are various ways to make circled numbers. See Good way to make \textcircled numbers? – Alan Munn Mar 9 at 16:29

Perhaps something like this is what you want. Adapted from the answers linked in the comments. (The one about numbering used the tabu package, which I don't recommend, and it's not relevant to the numbering issue.)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\newcounter{cellnum}
\renewcommand{\thecellnum}{\textcircled{\raisebox{-.9pt}{\arabic{cellnum}}}}

\newcolumntype{N}{>{\stepcounter{cellnum}\makebox[1em][r]{\thecellnum}\hspace{0.5em}}l}
\AtBeginEnvironment{array}{\setcounter{cellnum}{-1}} % set to 0 to start at 1

\begin{document}
$\begin{array}{NNNN} 2 & 5 & -2 & -5 \\ a \geqq 2 & a \geqq 3 & a \geqq 4 \end{array}$

$\begin{array}{NNNN} 2 & 5 & -2 & -5 \\ a \geqq 2 & a \geqq 3 & a \geqq 4 \end{array}$
\end{document}