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)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 後置詞 (zh), 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), 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)
• Kazakh: септеулік (septewlik)
• Korean: 조사 (ko) (josa)
• Limburgish: achterzètsel (li) n
• 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
• 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 form 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

Further reading

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