Postposition
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A postposition is a word that expresses some sort of relationship between the preceding noun or pronoun — its object — and another part of the sentence; a postpositional phrase functions as an adjective or adverb. Postpositions are the equivalents of prepositions in languages where the object precedes the word, such as Japanese. Here are some examples:

• Finnish: talon edessä (literally "house in front of"), talon takana ("house behind of")
• Hungarian: kutya nélkül ("dog without")
• Japanese: doko ni ("where at"), doko e ("where to")
• Korean: Hanguk e ("Korea to")

English has one postposition: 'ago'; however, English also has a tendency to form postpositional compound words, such as 'thereafter' and 'wherein', a quality likely borrowed from Latin, a fellow prepositional language.

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