"postfix" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1762, John Parkhurst, An Hebrew and English Lexicon: Without Points",
          "text": "Verbs with י for the first radical, often drop it in the future, imperative, and infinitive of Kal, to which last they postfix ת (לקח to take, follows this form), and in Niph. and Hiph. they change י into ו.",
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          "ref": "2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §9.4",
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