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Prepositional article

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prepositional pronounnounIn certain Romance languages, the pronoun form which must be used following a preposition.
prepositionalOf, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.
prepositionnoun(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
postpositionnoun(grammar) A word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
prepositional casenoun(grammar) A noun case serving as object of a preposition. Prepositions that often govern the prepositional case include "about", "in", "on", and "near". Russian is an example of a language that uses the prepositional case.
intransitive prepositionnoun(linguistics) A preposition used intransitively, ie, without an object, traditionally called an adverb, sometimes a particle.
præpositionnounObsolete spelling of preposition. [(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.]
prep.noun(grammar) Abbreviation of preposition. [(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.]
prepositional verbnoun(linguistics) A two-word phrase, consisting of a verb and a preposition, that has idiomatic meaning.
postpositional(grammar) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a postposition.
prepositional phrasenoun(grammar) A phrase containing both a preposition and its object or complement and which may be used as an adjunct or a modifier.
adpositionnoun(grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
propositionnoun(countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
prepnoun(informal, countable) A prep school.
prepositionhoodnoun(linguistics) The property of being a preposition.
prenounnoun(grammar) A particle which precedes a noun, typically used in the Algonquin languages.
postpositioningnoun(grammar) An instance where a modifier appears after the noun it modifies.
past anteriornoun(grammar) A compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, in function a pluperfect, and in form composed of the conjunction of the simple past tense of an auxiliary verb (avoir, être) with the past participle. Example: Après que la femme et l'homme l'eurent remercié = After the woman and the man had thanked him
praegnans constructionoun(brachylogy) A construction commonly found in Greek and Hebrew in which either a verb of motion is paired with a locative prepositional phrase or a static verb is paired with an allative preposition phrase.
preposition of placenounPreposition indicating localisation of object, e.g. on the field or in the field.

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