postposition
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
postposition (plural postpositions)
- (grammar) A word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
- 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
- 1643, Joseph Mede, Daniel's Weeks
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(grammar) words that come after the noun
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Finnish[edit]
Noun[edit]
postposition
- Genitive singular form of postpositio.
French[edit]
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Noun[edit]
postposition f (plural postpositions)
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Further reading[edit]
- “postposition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- English terms prefixed with post-
- English lemmas
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- English countable nouns
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- en:Parts of speech
- Finnish non-lemma forms
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- French terms with IPA pronunciation
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- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- fr:Grammar