Explore Postpositions through 5 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Postpositions meaning
plural of postposition
Using Postpositions
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of postposition
Context around Postpositions
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Postpositions
- In this selection, "postpositions" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, uses stand out and add context to how "postpositions" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include bambara uses postpositions in much and of any postpositions. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "postpositions" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with postpositions
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Bambara uses postpositions in much the same manner as languages like English and French use prepositions. (16 words)
Basic word order is subject–verb–object (SVO), although subjects are often dropped ; prepositions are used rather than postpositions. (19 words)
The as remain unpronounced before postpositions and before other words in compounds: ઘરપર "on the house" is gharpar and not gharapar; ઘરકામ "housework" is gharkām and not gharakām. (29 words)
In prepositional phrases the noun is always in the partitive: Some postpositions can also be used as prepositions: Verb forms main Finnish verbs are usually divided into seven groups depending on the stem type. (34 words)
The vocative is sometimes given a place in the case system as an eighth case, but vocative forms do not participate in usual morphophonemic alternations and do not govern the use of any postpositions. (34 words)
The as remain unpronounced before postpositions and before other words in compounds: ઘરપર "on the house" is gharpar and not gharapar; ઘરકામ "housework" is gharkām and not gharakām. (29 words)
Example sentences (5)
Bambara uses postpositions in much the same manner as languages like English and French use prepositions.
Basic word order is subject–verb–object (SVO), although subjects are often dropped ; prepositions are used rather than postpositions.
In prepositional phrases the noun is always in the partitive: Some postpositions can also be used as prepositions: Verb forms main Finnish verbs are usually divided into seven groups depending on the stem type.
The as remain unpronounced before postpositions and before other words in compounds: ઘરપર "on the house" is gharpar and not gharapar; ઘરકામ "housework" is gharkām and not gharakām.
The vocative is sometimes given a place in the case system as an eighth case, but vocative forms do not participate in usual morphophonemic alternations and do not govern the use of any postpositions.