noun
- words or particles that follow the noun or pronoun they modify, functioning similarly to prepositions but placed after rather than before
Usage: linguistics; grammar
Examples
- In Japanese, postpositions like ‘ni’ and ‘de’ follow the nouns they modify.
- Hindi uses postpositions extensively, such as ‘mein’ meaning ‘in’ or ‘inside’.
- The linguist explained how postpositions work differently from English prepositions.
- Korean postpositions indicate grammatical relationships between words in a sentence.
- Students learning agglutinative languages must master the use of postpositions.
- The grammar book included a chapter on postpositions in various world languages.