| Engelsk navneord: preposition | 
| 1. | preposition (om kommunikation) a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word | 
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 | Mindre specifikke termer | closed-class word, function word | 
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| 2. | preposition (om kommunikation) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached) | 
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 | Mindre specifikke termer | place, position | 
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 | Overordnet emneområde | linguistics | 
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