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Meaning of "postpositional" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POSTPOSITIONAL

postpositional  [ˌpəʊstpəˈzɪʃənəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POSTPOSITIONAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Postpositional is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES POSTPOSITIONAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of postpositional in the English dictionary

The definition of postpositional in the dictionary is placed after the word that it modifies or to which it is syntactically related.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POSTPOSITIONAL


acquisitional
ˌækwɪˈzɪʃənəl
additional
əˈdɪʃənəl
appositional
ˌæpəˈzɪʃənəl
depositional
ˌdɛpəˈzɪʃənəl
educational
ˌɛdjʊˈkeɪʃənəl
inquisitional
ˌɪŋkwɪˈzɪʃənəl
inspirational
ˌɪnspɪˈreɪʃənəl
juxtapositional
ˌdʒʌkstəpəˈzɪʃənəl
occupational
ˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃənəl
operational
ˌɒpəˈreɪʃənəl
oppositional
ˌɒpəˈzɪʃənəl
organizational
ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃənəl
ovipositional
ˌəʊvɪpəˈzɪʃənəl
positional
pəˈzɪʃənəl
prepositional
ˌprɛpəˈzɪʃənəl
propositional
ˌprɒpəˈzɪʃənəl
recreational
ˌrɛkrɪˈeɪʃənəl
suppositional
ˌsʌpəˈzɪʃənəl
traditional
trəˈdɪʃənəl
transitional
trænˈzɪʃənəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POSTPOSITIONAL

postpartum depression
postperson
postpollination
postponable
postpone
postponement
postponence
postponer
postpose
postposition
postpositionally
postpositive
postpositively
postprandial
postprandial thermogenesis
postprimary
postprison
postproduction
postpuberty
postpubescent

WORDS THAT END LIKE POSTPOSITIONAL

constitutional
conventional
dimensional
emotional
exceptional
functional
institutional
international
motivational
national
nutritional
occasional
optional
personal
professional
promotional
rational
regional
the National
the Second International
vocational

Synonyms and antonyms of postpositional in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «postpositional» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POSTPOSITIONAL

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The translations of postpositional from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «postpositional» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

后置
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

postposicional
570 millions of speakers

English

postpositional
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वृक्ष
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

postpositional
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

послелогами
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

postpositional
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

postpositional
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

postpositionnel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Postpositional
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

postpositional
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

助詞
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

postpositional
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Postpositional
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

postpositional
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

postpositional
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पदस्थानाचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

İlgeç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

postpositional
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

postpositional
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

послелогами
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

postpositional
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

postpositional
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

postpositional
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

postpositional
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

postpositional
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of postpositional

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTPOSITIONAL»

The term «postpositional» is used very little and occupies the 177.603 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTPOSITIONAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about postpositional

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSTPOSITIONAL»

Discover the use of postpositional in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to postpositional and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Descriptive Grammar of Nepali and an Analyzed Corpus
This chapter describes the structure of the adverbial postpositional noun phrase ( PP) in Nepali. (Postpositions are equivalent to prepositions in English). The postpositional phrase consists of a noun or a noun phrase (NP) filling the functional ...
Jayaraj Acharya, 1991
2
Japanese Phrase Structure Grammar: A Unification-based Approach
PFORM, which is associated with postpositions and postpositional phrases, shows the form of the particle. GR stands for the grammatical relation of some of the postpositional phrases. As Shibatani (1977) argues, the phonological form of the ...
Takao Gunji, 1987
3
A Grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole
The existence of postpositional nouns of spatial reference is an intriguing aspect of BD grammar, since it is one of the areas which display SOV-type structures in an SVO language. The following example illustrates the postposed use of such a  ...
Silvia Kouwenberg, 1994
4
Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar
17. POSTPOSITIONAL. PHRASES. Turkish has no prepositions, but a large number of postpositions, which follow their complements. Turkish postpositions fall into two main categories: bare postpositions (17.2), which carry no suffixes, and ...
Aslı Göksel, Celia Kerslake, 2005
5
The Circum-Baltic Languages: Typology and Contact
A closer look at the syntax of Karaim postpositional phrases reveals that the dominant type of postpositional phrases in Karaim is the one that is most compatible with SVO constituent ordering. I will first present the types of postpositional ...
Östen Dahl, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, 2001
6
Mapping Spatial PPs: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, |
We will find additional indications to this effect in the discussion of simple postpositional, circumpositional, and complex pre- and postpositional PPs in the remainder of this section. Let me proceed, then, by considering Koopman's analysis of ...
Guglielmo Cinque, Luigi Rizzi, 2010
7
Hopi Time: A Linguistic Analysis of the Temporal Concepts in ...
The postpositional element -pyeve 'before' Spatio-temporal metaphors in conjunction with nonprimary locators Introduction The locator element i1asu- 'all the way' 78 78 78 78 79 80 81 81 81 82 82 82 84 84 85 86 87 87 87 88 90 91 92 93 95 ...
Ekkehart Malotki, 1983
8
A Grammar of Mangghuer: A Mongolic Language of China's ...
In addition to postpositional case enclitics (section 4.9.2) and postpositional possessive enclitics (4.9.3), Mangghuer has a set of relational nouns which exhibit both postpositional behavior and nominal behavior. Like the other postpositions, ...
Keith W. Slater, 2005
9
A Tohono O'Odham Grammar
The noun is preceded by 'am, which is a specifier of the postpositional phrase, and is followed by ba:so which is called a postposition. NOTE: Postpositions in Papago correspond to prepositions in English. Their function is the same, but they ...
Ofelia Zepeda, 1983
10
Turkic Languages in Contact
In his comparative study on postpositions, which includes diachronic perspectives, Lorenz (1967) presents circum- and postpositional constructions from Tajik and a broad variety of other Iranian languages. Due to its obvious parallelism in ...
Hendrik Boeschoten, Lars Johanson, 2006

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