postposition

English

Wikipedia

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.
   • Mede

     the postposition of the nominative case to the verb

Synonyms

• postpositive preposition

Antonyms

• preposition

Hypernyms

• adposition

Derived terms

• postpositional

Translations

(grammar) words that come after the noun

• Armenian: կապ (hy) ‎(kap)
• Bashkir: бәйләүес ‎(bäyläwes)
• 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
• Estonian: tagasõna
• Faroese: eftirseting f
• Finnish: postpositio (fi)
• French: postposition (fr) f
• Georgian: პოსტპოზიცია ‎(ṗosṭṗozicia)
• German: Nachsetzwort, nachgestellte Präposition f, Postposition (de) f, nachgestelltes Verhältniswort n, Postposition (de) f
• Greek: ὑπόταξις f ‎(hupótaxis)
• Hungarian: névutó (hu)

• Icelandic: eftirsetning f
• Ido: postpoziciono (io)
• Irish: iarfhocal m
• Japanese: 後置詞 ‎(こうちし, kōchishi)
• Korean: 조사 (ko) ‎(josa)
• Limburgish: achterzètsel (li) n
• Portuguese: posposição (pt) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: послело́г (ru) m ‎(poslelóg)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Southern Altai: уланты ‎(ulantı)
• Spanish: posposición f
• Swedish: postposition (sv) c
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Udmurt: нимбер ‎(nimber)

See also

• coverb
• preverb

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Finnish

Noun

postposition

1. Genitive singular form of postpositio.

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French

Noun

postposition f ‎(plural postpositions)

1. (grammar) postposition.

External links

• “postposition” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).