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postposition en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˌpoʊstpəˈzɪʃən/ (General-American)
  • /ˌpəʊstpəˈzɪʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English position English postposition From post- + position.

Meanings

  1. 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.
    • the postposition of the nominative case to the verb 1643, Joseph Mede, Daniel's Weeks:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
postpositions Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

preposition

Deriveds

postpositional

Hypernyms

adposition

Relateds

postposed · postpositive

Synonyms

postpositive preposition

Translations (49)

nl achterzetsel ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · pl poimek ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · hu névutó ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · fi postpositio ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · is eftirsetning ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · de Nachsetzwort ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · fo eftirseting ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · ka პოსტპოზიცია ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · be паслялог ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · ba бәйләүес ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · de nachgestellte Präposition ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · it postposizione ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · ro postpoziție ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · es postposición (position of a word) · nl achtergeplaatst voorzetsel ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · ga iarfhocal ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · io postpoziciono ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · es posposición ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · it posposizione ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · ks پۆت جٲے ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · pl postpozycja (position of a word) · ja 後置詞 ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · az qoşma ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · vi hậu giới từ ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · cmn 後置詞 /后置词 ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · ka უკუდებული ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · de nachgestelltes Verhältniswort ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · th ปัจฉิมบท ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · es postposición ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · th ปัจฉบท ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · ca posposició ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · udm послелог ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · eu postposizio ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · udm нимбер ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · pt posposição ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · tr sontakı ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · ko 조사 ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · et tagasõna ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · de Postposition ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · eo postpozicio ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · es posposición (position of a word) · grc ὑπόταξις ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · kk септеулік ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · ru послело́г ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · izh postpositsia ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · alt уланты ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · hy կապ ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · izh jälkisana ((grammar) words that come after the noun) · li achterzètsel ((grammar) words that come after the noun)

postposition en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˌpoʊstpəˈzɪʃən/ (General-American)
  • /ˌpəʊstpəˈzɪʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English position English postposition From post- + position.

Meanings

  1. To be placed after a the word that it modifies.
    • Nonetheless, PPs in my dataset not only make up the bulk of the non-clausal postpositionings, but they are also postpositioned at a relatively high rate, particularly in comparison to adverbs, the second most frequent form. 2020, Shannon Dubenion-Smith, “A typology of non-clausal postpositioning in German dialects”, in Janet Zhiqun Xing, editor, A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization: East Meets West (Trends in Linguistics; 327), Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 245:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
postpositioned Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
postpositioned Tense=Past lexicographic
postpositions Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
postpositioning Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

coverb · preverb