postposition

postposition

English

Etymology

post- +‎ position

Noun

postposition (plural postpositions)

1. (grammar) A word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
2. The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.
   • 1643, Joseph Mede, Daniel's Weeks

     the postposition of the nominative case to the verb

Synonyms

• postpositive preposition

Antonyms

• preposition

Hypernyms

• adposition

Derived terms

• postpositional

Related terms

• postposed
• postpositive

Translations

(grammar) words that come after the noun

Armenian: կապ (hy) (kap) Azerbaijani: qoşma Bashkir: бәйләүес (bäyläwes) Basque: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 後置詞／后置词 (zh) (hòuzhìcí) Dutch: achterzetsel (nl) n, achtergeplaatst voorzetsel n Esperanto: postpozicio (eo) Estonian: tagasõna Faroese: eftirseting f Finnish: postpositio (fi) French: postposition (fr) f Georgian: პოსტპოზიცია (ṗosṭṗozicia), უკუდებული (uḳudebuli) German: Nachsetzwort, nachgestellte Präposition f, Postposition (de) f, nachgestelltes Verhältniswort n, Postposition (de) f Greek: Ancient: ὑπόταξις f (hupótaxis) Hungarian: névutó (hu) Icelandic: eftirsetning f Ido: postpoziciono (io) Irish: iarfhocal m Japanese: 後置詞 (こうちし, kōchishi) Kannada: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: септеулік (septeulık) Korean: 조사 (ko) (josa) Limburgish: achterzètsel n Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Polish: poimek (pl) m Portuguese: posposição (pt) f Romanian: postpoziție (ro) f Russian: послело́г (ru) m (poslelóg) Slovak: please add this translation if you can Southern Altai: уланты (ulantï) Spanish: posposición f Swedish: postposition (sv) c Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can Thai: ปัจฉิมบท (th) (bpàt-chǐm-má-bòt) Turkish: sontakı Udmurt: нимбер (nimber)

See also

• coverb
• preverb

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Finnish

Noun

postposition

1. genitive singular of postpositio

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔst.po.zi.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

postposition f (plural postpositions)

1. (grammar) postposition

Derived terms

• postpositionnel

Related terms

• postposer

Further reading

• “postposition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.