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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English preposicioun , from Old French preposicion , from Latin praepositio, praepositionem , from praepono ( “ to place before ” ) , equivalent to pre- + position . Compare French préposition . So called because it is placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in a bridge of iron , he comes from town , it is good for food , he escaped by running .
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Pronunciation
Noun
Examples (strict sense)
under the table
in my pocket
past noon
preposition (plural prepositions )
( grammar , strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words 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.
1988 , Andrew Radford, chapter 9, in Transformational grammar: a first course , Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 495 :And in (121) below, we see that when a wh-NP is used as the Object of a Preposition , the whole Prepositional Phrase can undergo WH MOVEMENT : (121) (a) [To whom ] can I send this letter —? (121) (b) [About what ] are they quarrelling —? (121) (c) [In which book ] did you read about it —?
2014 June 1, “Net Neutrality”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver , season 1, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:I love this girl. “On which I can get my hands” — even in her darkest moment, she cannot bring herself to end a sentence with a preposition .
( grammar , broad sense) An adposition .
( obsolete ) A proposition ; an exposition ; a discourse .
1811 [1516 ], Robert Fabyan , edited by Sir Henry Ellis, The New Chronicles of England and France , page 116 :[ …] he made a longe preposicion & oracion cōcernynge yͤ allegiaūce which he exortyd his lordes to owe
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terms derived from preposition (noun)
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terms related to preposition (noun)
Translations
grammar: a type of word like "of, from, for, by"
Afrikaans: voorsetsel (af)
Albanian: parafjalë (sq) f
Amharic: መስተዋድድ ( mästäwadd )
Arabic: جَارّ (ar) m ( jārr ) , حَرْف جَرّ m ( ḥarf jarr )
Egyptian Arabic: حرف جر m ( ḥarff garr )
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: կապ (hy) ( kap ) , նախդիր (hy) ( naxdir )
Asturian: preposición (ast) f
Azerbaijani: sözönü
Belarusian: прыназо́ўнік m ( prynazóŭnik )
Bengali: পদান্বয়ী অব্যয় ( podannoẏi obboẏ )
Breton: araogenn (br)
Bulgarian: предло́г (bg) m ( predlóg )
Burmese: ဝိဘတ် (my) ( wi.bhat ) ( postpositional marker, equivalent of a preposition in Burmese )
Catalan: preposició (ca) f
Chechen: предлог ( predlog )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 介詞 / 介词 ( gaai3 ci4 ) , 前置詞 / 前置词 ( cin4 zi3 ci4 )
Mandarin: 介詞 / 介词 (zh) ( jiècí ) , 前置詞 / 前置词 (zh) ( qiánzhìcí )
Czech: předložka (cs) f
Danish: forholdsord n , præposition (da) c
Dutch: voorzetsel (nl) n , kastwoord n
Esperanto: prepozicio (eo)
Estonian: eessõna
Faroese: fyriseting f
Finnish: prepositio (fi)
French: préposition (fr)
Galician: preposición (gl) f
Georgian: წინდებული ( c̣indebuli ) , პრეპოზიცია ( ṗreṗozicia )
German: Präposition (de) f , Verhältniswort (de) , Vorwort (de) , Lagewort (de)
Greek: πρόθεση (el) f ( próthesi )
Ancient: πρόθεσις f ( próthesis )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hausa: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: ʻinaleo , ʻinawaena
Hebrew: מילת יחס / מִלַּת יַחַס (he) f ( milát yákhas )
Hindi: पूर्वसर्ग m ( pūrvasarg )
Hungarian: elöljáró (hu) , elöljárószó (hu)
Icelandic: forsetning (is) f
Ido: prepoziciono (io)
Indonesian: kata depan , kata depan (id)
Ingrian: prepositsia , esisana
Interlingua: preposition (ia)
Irish: réamhfhocal (ga) m
Italian: preposizione (it) f
Japanese: 前置詞 (ja) ( ぜんちし, zenchishi )
Kazakh: предлог ( predlog ) , демеулік ( demeulık )
Khmer: ធ្នាក់ (km) ( thnĕək )
Korean: 전치사(前置詞) (ko) ( jeonchisa )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: daçek (ku) f
Kyrgyz: предлог (ky) ( predlog )
Lao: ຄຳເຊື່ອມ ( kham sư̄am )
Latin: praepositio (la) f
Latvian: prievārds (lv) m , prepozīcija (lv) f
Ligurian: prepoxiçión f
Lithuanian: prielinksnis (lt) m
Macedonian: предлог m ( predlog )
Malay: kata depan
Malayalam: ഗതി (ml) ( gati )
Middle English: preposicion
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: угтвар үг ( ugtvar üg )
Norman: préposition f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: preposisjon (no) m
Nynorsk: preposisjon (nn) m
Old English: fōresetnes f
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian:
Iranian Persian: حَرْفِ اِضافِه (fa) ( harf-e ezâfe )
Polish: przyimek (pl) m
Portuguese: preposição (pt) f
Romanian: prepoziție (ro) f
Russian: предло́г (ru) m ( predlóg )
Scottish Gaelic: roimhear m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пре́длог m , прије́длог m , препози́ција f
Roman: prédlog m , prijédlog (sh) m , prepozícija (sh) f
Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: predložka f
Slovene: prêdlog (sl) m
Somali: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: preposición (es) f
Swahili: kihusishi
Swedish: preposition (sv) c
Tagalog: pang-ukol (tl)
Tajik: пешоянд (tg) ( pešoyand )
Thai: บุพบท (th) ( bùp-pá-bòt ) , บุรพบท (th) ( bù-rá-pá-bòt )
Tigrinya: መስተዋድድ (ti) ( mästäwadd )
Turkish: ilgeç (tr) , edat (tr)
Turkmen: predlog , prepozisiýa
Ukrainian: прийме́нник (uk) m ( pryjménnyk )
Urdu: حَرْفِ جار m ( harf-i jār ) , حَرْفِ جَر m ( harf-i jar )
Uyghur: ئالدى قوشۇلغۇچى ( aldi qoshulghuchi )
Uzbek: predlog
Vietnamese: giới từ (vi) (介詞 )
Volapük: präpod (vo)
Walloon: divancete (wa) f
Welsh: arddodiad m
West Frisian: ferhâldingswurd (fy) n
Wolof: please add this translation if you can
Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: פּרעפּאָזיציע f ( prepozitsye )
Yoruba: ọ̀rọ̀-atọ́kùn
Zulu: please add this translation if you can
See also
Etymology 2
pre- + position
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈpɹiːpəˌzɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file )
Verb
preposition (third-person singular simple present prepositions , present participle prepositioning , simple past and past participle prepositioned )
To place in a location before some other event occurs.
It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.
Translations
to place in a location before some other event occurs
Finnish
Noun
preposition
genitive singular of prepositio
Interlingua
Noun
preposition (plural prepositiones )
( grammar ) A word that is used in conjunction with a noun or pronoun in order to form a phrase.
Swedish
Noun
preposition c
a preposition (part of speech)
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