Prepositive vs Propositive - What's the difference?
prepositive | propositive |
Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle.
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:
* 1997 , Young-joo Kim, "The Acquisition of Korean," in The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition , page 417:
* 2000 , Iksop Lee and Samuel Robert Ramsey, The Korean Language , page 101:
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
(-)Derived terms
* prepositivelyReferences
* ----propositive
English
Adjective
(-)- "This auxiliary verb ma-l- occurs only in the imperative, propositive and gerund forms."
- "Imperative and propositive (ie, 'let us V type) sentences were excluded. "
- "First, adjectives are distinguished from verbs in that they do not have imperative or propositive forms."