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},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(grammar) words that come after the noun",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "posposición"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"note": "postposition c",
"sense": "(grammar) words that come after the noun"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "bpàt-chà-bòt",
"sense": "(grammar) words that come after the noun",
"word": "ปัจฉบท"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "bpàt-chǐm-má-bòt",
"sense": "(grammar) words that come after the noun",
"word": "ปัจฉิมบท"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "(grammar) words that come after the noun",
"word": "sontakı"
},
{
"code": "udm",
"lang": "Udmurt",
"roman": "ńimber",
"sense": "(grammar) words that come after the noun",
"word": "нимбер"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "(grammar) words that come after the noun",
"word": "hậu giới từ"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"postposition"
],
"word": "postposition"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with post-",
"English verbs",
"en:Parts of speech"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "post",
"3": "position"
},
"expansion": "post- + position",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "post- + position",
"forms": [
{
"form": "postpositions",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "postpositioning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "postpositioned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "postpositioned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "postposition (third-person singular simple present postpositions, present participle postpositioning, simple past and past participle postpositioned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "coverb"
},
{
"word": "preverb"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Grammar"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2020, Shannon Dubenion-Smith, “A typology of non-clausal postpositioning in German dialects”, in Janet Zhiqun Xing, editor, A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization: East Meets West (Trends in Linguistics; 327), Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, page 245",
"text": "Nonetheless, PPs in my dataset not only make up the bulk of the non-clausal postpositionings, but they are also postpositioned at a relatively high rate, particularly in comparison to adverbs, the second most frequent form.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be placed after a the word that it modifies."
],
"links": [
[
"grammar",
"grammar"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(grammar) To be placed after a the word that it modifies."
],
"topics": [
"grammar",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"postposition"
],
"word": "postposition"
}
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