Examples of 'postpositions' in a sentence

Meaning of "postpositions"

postpositions (adjective) - a type of grammatical particle that is used after a noun or pronoun. In linguistics, this term is used to describe a type of word that indicates the relationship between elements in a sentence in languages such as Japanese or Korean
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How to use "postpositions" in a sentence

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Postpositions are used to modify locatives and predicates.
They are also often called postpositions or locative suffixes.
Postpositions may also take the locative suffix.
Udmurt makes use of postpositions rather than prepositions.
Suffixes are used to perform the functions of cases or postpositions.
Tamil has postpositions rather than prepositions.
Finnish also has some postpositions.
The postpositions became prepositions in most daughter languages.
Nouns and adverbs sometimes play role of postpositions.
It has postpositions rather than prepositions.
It also occurs with the objects of certain postpositions.
Ewe also has postpositions rather than prepositions.
It has an extensive set of spatial postpositions.
Bengali also uses postpositions rather than prepositions.
Some finer grammatical functions are expressed using postpositions.

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Georgian by and large has postpositions rather than prepositions.
Prepositions are used instead of postpositions.
Greedy postpositions will be tidying.
Subject and object are usually marked with postpositions.
Mainly postpositions are used.
It is also used preceding postpositions.
Adverbs and postpositions have a marginal inflectional category known as transitivity agreement.
Auxiliary words are considered to be postpositions.
Adverbial relationships are marked with postpositions on nouns as well as with true adverbs.
It can also be observed in a few local adverbs and postpositions.
Postpositions are more common in Finnish than prepositions.
Affixation is largely suffixal in the language and postpositions are attested.
Adverbs, postpositions and derived modifiers.
Postpositional object pronominals function as objects to which postpositions are attached.
Definition of postpositions, meaning of postpositions.
Afitti can tentatively be defined as an agglutinative SOV language with postpositions.
Postpositions are used instead of the prepositions typical of Indo-European languages.
Prepositions and postpositions.
Zarma has postpositions ( instead of prepositions as in English ) which are placed after the noun.
Ao is an SOV language with postpositions.
Postpositions indicate place, time, cause, consequence or relation.
All particles in Japanese are postpositions.
Postpositions in bare ( unsuffixed ) forms are capitalized.
Karaim is head-final and uses postpositions.
Postpositions predominate ( although, most languages have one or two prepositions as well ).
Along the same line, the language also has postpositions.
Technologie après récolte Postpositions Alimentation en énergie [ se subd . géogr . ].
It focuses on the semantic aspects of words, especially of verbs and postpositions.
The possessor normally precedes the possessed, and postpositions rather than prepositions are used.
Spanish has a relatively large number of prepositions, and does not use postpositions.
Almost all SOV languages use postpositions ( " therein lies a tale " ), with a notable exception in Farsi ( Persian ).
The language has four locative suffixes, in addition to a series of locative postpositions.
These are, for obvious linguistic reasons, called postpositions instead of prepositions.
Latvian has pre-nominal adjectives and both prepositions and postpositions.
Basic word order is subject-object-verb ; there are postpositions rather than prepositions.

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