Adposition vs Postposition - What's the difference?
adposition | postposition | Hyponyms |
(grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context.
(grammar) Any of various words in languages such as German, Hindi, Japanese and Finno-Ugric languages (Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian) which serve the same purpose as a preposition but come after the noun.
The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.
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Postposition is a hyponym of adposition.
Adposition is a hypernym of postposition.
In context|grammar|lang=en terms the difference between adposition and postposition
is that adposition is (grammar) an element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context while postposition is (grammar) any of various words in languages such as hindi, japanese and finno-ugric languages (estonian, finnish and hungarian) which serve the same purpose as a preposition but come after the noun.As nouns the difference between adposition and postposition
is that adposition is (grammar) an element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context while postposition is (grammar) any of various words in languages such as hindi, japanese and finno-ugric languages (estonian, finnish and hungarian) which serve the same purpose as a preposition but come after the noun.adposition
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(wikipedia adposition)Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* preposition * postposition * circumpositionpostposition
English
Noun
(en noun)- the postposition of the nominative case to the verb