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AWAD - postposition

Today's word is postposition.

 

In English we have prepositions. One might say "I live in NY." Here, the word "in" is a preposition because it's positioned before "NY" to which it refers. In some languages, such as Hindi, they are placed after the words they relate to and are known as postpositions.

 

In English we put adjectives before a noun, as in, hot coffee, but in some languages, such as French, adjectives go after the noun: café chaud. Sometimes we put adjectives postpositively in English too.

 

Learn more at: wordsmith.org/words/postposition.html

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Uploaded on January 27, 2022