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Meaning of "prepositional" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PREPOSITIONAL

prepositional  [ˌprɛpəˈzɪʃənəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREPOSITIONAL

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

WHAT DOES PREPOSITIONAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Preposition and postposition

Prepositions are a grammatically distinct class of words whose most central members characteristically express spatial or temporal relations or serve to mark various syntactic functions and semantic roles. In that the primary function is relational, a preposition typically combines with another constituent to form a prepositional phrase, relating the complement to the context in which the phrase occurs. The word preposition comes from Latin, a language in which such a word is usually placed before its complement, thus it is "pre-positioned". English is another such language, though there is no requirement that the preposition precede a complement. In many languages, the words with this grammatical function come after, not before, the complement. Such words are then commonly called postpositions. Similarly, circumpositions consist of two parts that appear on each side of the complement. The technical term used to refer collectively to prepositions, postpositions, and circumpositions is adposition. Some linguists use the word "preposition" instead of "adposition" for all three cases.

Definition of prepositional in the English dictionary

The definition of prepositional in the dictionary is containing or relating to a preposition.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREPOSITIONAL


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
postpositional
ˌpəʊstpəˈzɪʃənəl
propositional
ˌprɒpəˈzɪʃənəl
recreational
ˌrɛkrɪˈeɪʃənəl
suppositional
ˌsʌpəˈzɪʃənəl
traditional
trəˈdɪʃənəl
transitional
trænˈzɪʃənəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREPOSITIONAL

preponderating
preponderation
prepone
preportion
prepose
preposition
prepositional phrase
prepositionally
prepositive
prepositively
prepositor
prepossess
prepossessing
prepossessingly
prepossessingness
prepossession
preposterous
preposterously
preposterousness
prepostor

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREPOSITIONAL

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 prepositional in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prepositional» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PREPOSITIONAL

Find out the translation of prepositional to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prepositional from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prepositional» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

介词
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

preposicional
570 millions of speakers

English

prepositional
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पूर्वसर्गीय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الجر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

предлогов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

proposicional
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পদান্বয়ী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prépositionnel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Preposisional
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

präpositional
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

前置詞の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전치사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prepositional
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc về tiền trì từ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முன்னிடைச்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पूर्वतयारीत्मक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

edatsı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

preposizionale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przyimkowych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прийменників
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prepozițională
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εμπρόθετη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aanwesigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prepositional
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prepositional
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prepositional

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREPOSITIONAL»

The term «prepositional» is regularly used and occupies the 100.576 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PREPOSITIONAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prepositional» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prepositional» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREPOSITIONAL»

Discover the use of prepositional in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prepositional and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Order of Prepositional Phrases in the Structure of the ...
Lc Number 2005048266
Walter Schweikert, 2005
2
Prepositional Infinitives in Romance: A Usage-based Approach ...
This book examines the present-day distribution and diachronic evolution of a set of infinitival structures in Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian, making use of extensive corpus data and investigating how pragmatic factors and usage patterns ...
Kim Schulte, 2007
3
Around the House, the Fox Chased the Mouse: A Prepositional Tale
Teach your kids all about prepositions through this fun and frolicking little tale about a fox and a mouse. The simple text and playful story will keep you turning every page to the surprise ending.
Rick Walton, 2006
4
The Development from Case-forms to Prepositional ...
Thus, this book addresses this Old English syntactic issue both from a historical and a stylistic perspective and shows the stages of development during the Old English period.
Kiriko Sato, 2009
5
The prepositional passive in English: a semantic-syntactic ...
a semantic-syntactic analysis, with a lexicon of prepositional verbs Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen. however, somewhat less satisfactory. The PPP construction, he asserts, may he called a "correlate" of die propositional particle construction ...
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, 1979
6
Prepositional heaven: poems
Rabbitt recently moved from Alabama to Massachusetts, and then to a new home in Ireland. In Prepositional Heaven, he continues to explore the dark corners of human experience, and to shed light where most of us fear to gaze.
Thomas Rabbitt, 2001
7
Semantic and Syntactic Effects on Double Prepositional ...
The results revealed that length ordering influenced sentence recall, but did not override dependency ordering.
Karen Lynn Marblestone, 2007
8
A Comparison of Apollonius Rhodius with Homer in ...
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Arthur Sewall Haggett, 2012
9
Prepositions in Old and Middle English: A Study of ...
The present book covers various aspects of prepositional syntax between c. 900-1400, including case relations and the range of prepositional complements; it also examines word order, both within the PP and at clause level, and it explores ...
Tom Lundskær-Nielsen, 1993
10
The Positional Variation of Prepositional Phrases in ...
Section 3.1 describes how the sentential position of adverbial prepositional phrases changed and how different subclasses of adverbial PPs were relocated to different sentential positions across the history of Chinese. Section 3.2 introduces ...
Jeeyoung Peck, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREPOSITIONAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prepositional is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ask The Old Editor: three things
The third: When English pretty much abandoned inflection, word order took on crucial importance, and the placement of prepositional phrases ... «Baltimore Sun, Jul 15»
2
Check It Out: 'Comma queen' writes a lovely resource
Commas, adverbs, prepositional phrases — they're all eminently useful and necessary to writers everywhere. What I find truly helpful when ... «The Columbian, Jul 15»
3
Editors urged to join meaningful associations
“Watch out for errors in prepositional phrases,” she said, and do not hesitate to remove extraneous materials, unreliable clichés and bombastic ... «GhanaWeb, Jul 15»
4
Bread, Circuses, and Skits
God's relation to creation, which the calendar annually guides us into, is prepositional. Sherrill, a pastor, learned the value of following a fixed ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
5
Jen's English Tip Today - a while vs. awhile – The Correct Way to …
Finally, just to make it confusing, if you rephrase the previous sentence and replace the adverb with a prepositional phrase, you need the noun ... «Chiang Rai Times, Jul 15»
6
10 Tips to Tighten Your Writing
People can clutter their writing by being overly dependent on prepositional phrases. But with just a little tinkering, you can tighten up your ... «The Financial Brand, Jul 15»
7
Teach the Calendar, Follow the Story
... shape of the gospel. God's relation to creation, which the calendar annually guides us into, is prepositional. Leave a commentSingle Page. «ChristianityToday.com, Jul 15»
8
DOL Reiterates Its Stance on 'Top Hat' Plans
It does not modify the more remote prepositional phrase "for a select group of management or highly compensated employees." According to ... «PLANSPONSOR, Jul 15»
9
Coming to terms with bafflers in English grammar and usage
Here's how those two phrasal verbs work: In the sentence that uses the prepositional phrase “for use of students and teachers,” the preposition ... «The Manila Times, Jun 15»
10
EXPLAINED: How to nail 5 incredibly challenging SAT questions
To solve this problem, it's helpful to use the strategy Ignore Prepositional Phrases. Prepositional phrases typically do not contain errors and are ... «Business Insider Australia, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Prepositional [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/prepositional>. Apr 2024 ».
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