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Prepositive vs Propositive - What's the difference?

prepositive | propositive |

As adjectives the difference between prepositive and propositive

is that prepositive is put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle while propositive is making, or concerned with, propositions or suggestions.

As a noun prepositive

is a prepositive word.

prepositive

English

(Webster 1913)

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle.
  • Derived terms

    * prepositively

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A prepositive word.
  • References

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    propositive

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • making, or concerned with, propositions or suggestions
  • (medicine, of a movement) intentional
  • (linguistics, Korean language) a specific verb form in the Korean language, also sometimes called the hortative or subjunctive assertive.
  • * 1950 , Sang Soon Yun, Introduction to Spoken Korean , page 250:
  • "This auxiliary verb ma-l- occurs only in the imperative, propositive and gerund forms."
  • * 1997 , Young-joo Kim, "The Acquisition of Korean," in The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition , page 417:
  • "Imperative and propositive (ie, 'let us V type) sentences were excluded. "
  • * 2000 , Iksop Lee and Samuel Robert Ramsey, The Korean Language , page 101:
  • "First, adjectives are distinguished from verbs in that they do not have imperative or propositive forms."

    See also

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