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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

後置詞

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kōchishi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Postposition/ˌpoʊst.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #14500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"日本語の助詞は典型的な後置詞である。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A word or grammatical marker that comes after its complement or the noun it governs, functioning similarly to a preposition.

    "Korean and Japanese make extensive use of postpositions to indicate grammatical cases."
  2. 2

    The structural placement of a word or constituent after another word.

    "The postposition of the modifier alters the syntactic flow of the sentence."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin 'postpositio', formed from 'post-' meaning 'after' and 'positio' meaning 'placing' or 'position'. It entered English grammatical terminology in the 19th century to describe linguistic elements that follow their complement, contrasting with prepositions.

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