Complete Definition of "postposition"

English
Noun
en-noun

#grammar: A class of words in languages such as Hindi, Japanese and Finno-Ugric languages (Estonian, Finnish & Hungarian) which serves the same purpose as prepositions but comes after the noun.

Antonyms
preposition

Derived terms
postpositional

Translations

Dutch: achterzetsel n, achtergeplaatst voorzetsel n
French: postposition#French|postposition f
Finnish: postpositio
German: nachgestellte Präposition f
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Japanese: �置� (����, k�chishi)
Russian: по�лелог (poslelóg) m
Spanish: posposición f

See also
coverb

Category:Parts of speech


French

Noun
fr-noun|f

  1. context|grammar|lang=fr postposition#English|postposition.

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