postposition

English

Noun

postposition (plural postpositions)

1. (grammar) Any of various words in languages such as Hindi, Japanese and Finno-Ugric languages (Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian) which serve the same purpose as a preposition but come 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. — Mede.

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
• Dutch: achterzetsel n, achtergeplaatst voorzetsel n
• Estonian: tagasõna (et)
• Faroese: eftirseting (fo) f
• Finnish: postpositio (fi)
• French: postposition (fr) f
• Georgian: პოსტპოზიცია (ka) (postpozitsia)
• German: nachgestellte Präposition f, Postposition (de) f
• Hungarian: névutó (hu)

• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 後置詞 (ja) (こうちし, kōchishi)
• Korean: 후치사 (ko) (hu-chi-sa)
• Limburgish: achterzètsel (li) n
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: послелог (ru) (poslelóg) m
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: posposición f
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

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.