postposition

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Etymology

From post- +‎ position.

Noun

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

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Translations

(grammar) words that come after the noun

Armenian: կապ (hy) (kap)
Azerbaijani: qoşma
Bashkir: бәйләүес (bəyləwes)
Basque: postposizio
Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 後置詞 / 后置词 (zh) (hòuzhìcí)
Dutch: achterzetsel (nl) n, achtergeplaatst voorzetsel n
Esperanto: postpozicio (eo)
Estonian: tagasõna
Faroese: eftirseting f
Finnish: postpositio (fi)
French: postposition (fr) f
Georgian: პოსტპოზიცია (ṗosṭṗozicia), უკუდებული (uḳudebuli)
German: Nachsetzwort, nachgestellte Präposition f, Postposition (de) f, nachgestelltes Verhältniswort n, Postposition (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: ὑπόταξις f (hupótaxis)
Hungarian: névutó (hu)
Icelandic: eftirsetning f
Ido: postpoziciono (io)
Ingrian: postpositsia, jälkisana
Irish: iarfhocal m
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Japanese: 後置詞 (ja) (こうちし, kōchishi)
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: септеулік (septeulık)
Korean: 조사 (ko) (josa)
Limburgish: achterzètsel n
Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
Polish: poimek (pl) m
Portuguese: posposição (pt) f
Romanian: postpoziție (ro) f
Russian: послело́г (ru) m (poslelóg)
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Southern Altai: уланты (ulantï)
Spanish: posposición f
Swedish: postposition (sv) c
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: please add this translation if you can
Thai: ปัจฉบท (th) (bpàt-chà-bòt), ปัจฉิมบท (th) (bpàt-chǐm-má-bòt)
Turkish: sontakı
Udmurt: нимбер (ńimber)
Vietnamese: hậu giới từ

Verb

postposition (third-person singular simple present postpositions, present participle postpositioning, simple past and past participle postpositioned)

(grammar) To be placed after a the word that it modifies.
- 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:
  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.