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preposition

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English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishpreposicioun, fromOld Frenchpreposicion, fromLatinpraepositio, praepositionem, frompraepono(“to place before”), equivalent topre- +‎position. CompareFrenchpréposition. So called because it is placed before the word with which it is phrased, as ina bridgeof iron,he comesfrom town,it is goodfor food,he escapedby running.

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Noun

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Examples (strict sense)
  • under the table
  • in my pocket
  • past noon
  • on top of the fridge
  • owing to the rain

preposition (pluralprepositions)

  1. (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflectingwords and multiwordterms typically employed to connect a followingnoun or apronoun, in anadjectival oradverbial sense, with some other word: aparticle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in theobjective case) to make aphrase limiting some other word.
    • 1844, E. A. Andrews,First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, 6th edition, Boston, page91:
      322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs,prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
    • 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 9, inTransformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page495:
      And in (121) below, we see that when a wh-NP is used as the Object of aPreposition, the whole Prepositional Phrase can undergo WHMOVEMENT:
      (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”, inLast 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 apreposition.
  2. (grammar, broad sense) Anadposition.
  3. (obsolete) Aproposition; anexposition; adiscourse.
    • 1811 [1516],Robert Fabyan, edited by Sir Henry Ellis,The New Chronicles of England and France‎[1], page116:
      […] he made a longepreposicion & oracion cōcernynge yͤ allegiaūce which he exortyd his lordes to owe
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Derived terms
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terms derived frompreposition (noun)
Related terms
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terms related topreposition (noun)
Translations
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grammar: a type of word like "of, from, for, by"

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Etymology 2

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Frompre- +‎position.

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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preposition (third-person singular simple presentprepositions,present participleprepositioning,simple past and past participleprepositioned)

  1. (sometimes proscribed)Alternative spelling ofpre-position.
    It is important topreposition the material before turning on the machine.
Translations
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to place in a location before some other event occurs

Finnish

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Noun

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preposition

  1. genitivesingular ofprepositio

Interlingua

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Noun

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preposition (pluralprepositiones)

  1. (grammar) A word that is used in conjunction with a noun or pronoun in order to form a phrase.

Swedish

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Noun

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preposition c

  1. apreposition (part of speech)

Declension

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Declension ofpreposition
nominativegenitive
singularindefiniteprepositionprepositions
definiteprepositionenprepositionens
pluralindefiniteprepositionerprepositioners
definiteprepositionernaprepositionernas

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