noun
- a word or particle that follows a noun or pronoun to show its relationship to other words in a sentence, similar to a preposition but placed after rather than before
Usage: linguistics; grammar
Examples
- In Japanese, ‘ni’ is a postposition meaning ‘to’ or ‘at’.
- Hindi uses postpositions instead of prepositions in many cases.
- The postposition ‘ward’ in English appears in words like ‘homeward’.
- Korean grammar relies heavily on postpositions to indicate grammatical relationships.
- Unlike English prepositions, postpositions come after the noun they modify.
- The linguist explained how postpositions function in agglutinative languages.