the postposition of the nominative case to the verb
Source: wiktionary
Postposition
Synonyms for "postposition" (18 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (4)
Strong matches (5)
Related words (9)
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3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
1 entriesderived from
2 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 33 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὑπόταξις noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Armenian
1 entries- կապ noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qoşma noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Bashkir
1 entries- бәйләүес noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Basque
1 entries- postposizio noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Catalan
1 entries- posposició noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 後置詞 /后置词 noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Dutch
2 entries- achtergeplaatst voorzetsel noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
- achterzetsel noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Esperanto
1 entries- postpozicio noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Estonian
1 entries- tagasõna noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Faroese
1 entries- eftirseting noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Finnish
1 entries- postpositio noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Georgian
2 entries- პოსტპოზიცია noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
- უკუდებული noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
German
4 entries- Nachsetzwort noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
- Postposition noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
- Postposition noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
- nachgestellte Präposition noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Hungarian
1 entries- névutó noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Icelandic
1 entries- eftirsetning noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Ido
1 entries- postpoziciono noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Ingrian
2 entries- jälkisana noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
- postpositsia noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Irish
1 entries- iarfhocal noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Japanese
1 entries- 後置詞 noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Kazakh
1 entries- септеулік noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Korean
1 entries- 조사 noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Limburgish
1 entries- achterzètsel noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Polish
1 entries- poimek noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Portuguese
1 entries- posposição noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Romanian
1 entries- postpoziție noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Russian
1 entries- послело́г noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Southern Altai
1 entries- уланты noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Spanish
1 entries- posposición noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Thai
2 entries- ปัจฉบท noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
- ปัจฉิมบท noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Turkish
1 entries- sontakı noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Udmurt
2 entries- нимбер noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
- послелог noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hậu giới từ noun ((grammar) words that come after the noun)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
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.
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