postpose

1. 1.

   place after another constituent in the sentence

   “Japanese postposes the adpositions, whereas English preposes them”

   Broaderput

Other forms of postpose

past tense

postposed·

present participle

postposing·

third person

postposes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about postpose

What does postpose mean?

postpose means "place after another constituent in the sentence".

How many syllables are in postpose?

postpose has 2 syllables: post-pose. The stress falls on "pose".

Is postpose a common word?

postpose is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.