postposition
Syllables: post·po·si·tion/ˌpəʊstpəˈzɪʃən/US/ˌpoʊstpəˈzɪʃən/
postposition noun: a word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
Noun
postposition (plural postpositions)
- 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.
- the postposition of the nominative case to the verb1643, Joseph Mede, Daniel's Weeks
Verb
postposition (third-person singular simple present postpositions, present participle postpositioning, simple past and past participle postpositioned)
- 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...
postposition meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese
postposition in Hindi
- postposition
- परसर्ग parsarg
postposition in Tamil
- பின்னுருபு, சொல்லுருபு
postposition in Thai
- (grammar) words that come after the noun
- ปัจฉบท bpàt-chà-bòt, ปัจฉิมบท bpàt-chǐm-má-bòt
postposition in Vietnamese
- (grammar) words that come after the noun
- hậu giới từ
More languagesFewer languages
- Kashmiri
- پۆت جٲے pot jạ̄y
Synonyms of postposition
- postpositive preposition
Antonyms
Forms of postposition
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | postpositions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | postpositions |
| present participle | postpositioning |
| past participle | postpositioned |
| past | postpositioned |
Origin of postposition
From post- + position.
Words formed from postposition
Words that rhyme with postposition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about postposition
- What does postposition mean?
- Postposition means a word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
- What is postposition in Hindi?
- Postposition in Hindi is परसर्ग (parsarg). See Postposition meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is postposition?
- Postposition can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce postposition?
- Postposition is pronounced /ˌpəʊstpəˈzɪʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of postposition?
- The plural of postposition is postpositions.
Words near postposition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: postposition (page history and authors); परसर्ग (Hindi) (page history and authors); postposition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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