English
Noun
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The man in the story walked along the beach.
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prepositional phrase (plural prepositional phrases)
- (grammar) A phrase containing both a preposition and its object or complement; may be used as an adjunct or a modifier.
Synonyms
Translations
phrase containing both a preposition and its complement
- Arabic:
- Armenian: կապային կառույց (kapayin kaṙuycʿ), նախդրավոր կառույց (naxdravor kaṙuycʿ)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 介詞短語, 介词短语 (jiècí duǎnyǔ)
- Czech: předložková vazba f
- Dutch: voorzetselconstituent
- Finnish: prepositiolauseke
- French: syntagme prépositionnel (fr) m
- German: Präpositionalphrase (de) f
- Hindi:
- Icelandic: forsetningarliður m
- Italian: locuzione preposizionale f
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- Japanese: 前置詞句 (ぜんちしく, zenchishiku)
- Khmer: កន្សោមមានធ្នាក់ (kɑnsaom mien tneak)
- Korean: 전치사구 (jeonchisagu)
- Northern Sami: preposišuvdnagihppu
- Polish: wyrażenie przyimkowe (pl) n
- Portuguese: frase preposicional f
- Russian: предло́жно-именно́е сочета́ние n (predlóžno-imennóje sočetánije), предло́жная гру́ппа f (predlóžnaja grúppa)
- Scottish Gaelic: abairt roimhearach f
- Spanish: sintagma preposicional m
- Swedish: prepositionsfras (sv)
- Vietnamese:
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See also
prepositional phrase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia