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prepositive

Meaning of "prepositive" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PREPOSITIVE

priːˈpɒzɪtɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREPOSITIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prepositive can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PREPOSITIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of prepositive in the English dictionary

The definition of prepositive in the dictionary is placed before the word governed or modified. Other definition of prepositive is a prepositive element.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREPOSITIVE

acquisitive · appositive · compositive · contrapositive · depositive · diapositive · dispositive · electropositive · expositive · HIV-positive · inquisitive · oppositive · photopositive · positive · postpositive · Rh-positive · seropositive · suppositive · transpositional · transpositive

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREPOSITIVE

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREPOSITIVE

active · additive · aperitive · capacitive · case-sensitive · cognitive · competitive · definitive · false positive · fugitive · insensitive · intransitive · intuitive · nutritive · primitive · prohibitive · punitive · repetitive · sensitive · time-sensitive · transitive

Synonyms and antonyms of prepositive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prepositive» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PREPOSITIVE

Find out the translation of prepositive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

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

Translator English - Chinese

前置
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

prepositiva
570 millions of speakers
en

English

prepositive
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

prepositive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

prepositive
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

prepositive
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

propositiva
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

prepositive
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

prépositive
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Prepositive
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

prepositive
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

前置の
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

전치
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Prepositive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đặt ở trước
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

சொல், உருபு ஆகியவை வகையில் முன் வைப்பதற்கேற்ற
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

प्रीपोझिटिव्ह
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

prepositive
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

prepositive
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

prepositive
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

prepositive
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

prepositive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

prepositive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prepositive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prepositive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prepositive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prepositive

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREPOSITIVE»

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

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREPOSITIVE»

Discover the use of prepositive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prepositive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining: ...
Moreover, it also shares some special sentence structures with ancient Chinese, such as subject- verb reversal, prepositive object, prepositive syllepsis, postpositive time-noun, prepositive prepositional phrase and postpositive attribute.
Mieczyslaw A. Klopotek, Slawomir T. Wierzchon, Krzysztof Trojanowski, 2005
2
Positive Polynomials: From Hilbert's 17th Problem to Real ...
Q.E. D. Proposition 4.1.4: If a prepositive cone P is maximal (with respect to C), then P is a positive cone. Proof: Let a C A. Setting b = -a in (4.1.3), we get that P + P or P - aP is a prepositive cone, since --ah — а2 C P. From the maximality of P, ...
Alexander Prestel, Charles N. Delzell, 2001
3
An improved French grammar: containing a new method of ...
Of the complement accidental prepositive. This complement is not included in the proposition, but follows it, and is called acc,dental, because it is not necessary to the sense of the proposition, and therefore it might be suppressed without ...
John B. Ricord Madianna, 1812
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An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
The earlier grammarians divide the uses of the absolute or intensifying infinitive into d two categories, prepositive (that is, before the other verb) and postpositive ( that is, after the other verb), while allowing that the difference in meaning ...
Bruce K. Waltke, Michael Patrick O'Connor, 1990
5
The Colon Hypothesis: Word Order, Discourse Segmentation and ...
The 'adverbial' uses of ka€ and oÈd° can be expected to be prepositive with respect to the following word, as in the following examples: Plato Cra. 398a ̃ti ka‹ ≤mçw fhsin sidhroËn e‰nai g°now — Plato Cra. 429c PÒteron oÈd¢ ceÊdetai ̃tan ...
Frank Scheppers, 2011
6
A practical grammar of the English language: or, an ...
There are five kinds of phrases; namely, the prepositive, the participial, the gerundive, the prepositive gerundive, and the infinitive. PREPOSITIVE PHRASES . Prepositive phrases begin with a preposition, and commonly end with a noun, or a ...
Edward Hazen, 1842
7
Albanian Grammar: With Exercises, Chrestomathy and Glossaries
Declension Class 2, also termed here periphrastic — in contrast to the synthetic Class 1 (§48), comprises nouns with prepositive and postpositive articles. Corresponding with Class 1, the same declension endings for all three genders are ...
Martin Camaj, 1984
8
Studies in Chinese Language
A number (but not all) of the auxiliary verbs occur also as free verbs; some of these and others also as prepositive verbs. ziaŋ, which also occurs fre- quently as free verb (“bring, take”), as prepositive verb in ergative clause and as postpositive ...
M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster, 2006
9
Some Recently Found Greek Poems: Text and Commentary
In addition, it must be stipulated that a prepositive followed by a postpositive is not a prosodic unit of its own, since it cannot close a sentence, but constitutes one with the following unit (w? + [xe + x£Xeai). This rule explains some apparent  ...
Jan Maarten Bremer, Simon Roelof Slings, 1987
10
Of the Greek Prepositive Article, Its Nature and Uses
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Daniel Veysie, 2011

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREPOSITIVE»

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Pope to Swiss Bishops: Be the Body of Christ, not just another NGO
Pope Francis notes that the Gospel has an inherent, original prepositive power and that it's the pastors' job to make the full extent of this ... «Vatican Radio, Dec 14»
2
The Law Is Above the Lawyers
Each canon is formatted as a rule -- e.g., "When the syntax involves something other than a parallel series of nouns or verbs, a prepositive or ... «American Spectator, Oct 12»
REFERENCE
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