Postposition

Full definition of postposition

Noun

1. (grammar) Any of various words in languages such as German, 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