Postposition

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A postposition is a type of adposition occuring at the end of a word. It modifies a noun phrase to show relation within a clause. For example, Japaneses use postpositions to identify subject and object in the sentence "I speak German" as follows:

    わたしは            ドイツ語を          話します。
watashi-wa doitsugo-wo hanashimasu.
I-(subj marker) German-(obj marker) speak.


Here "wa" and "wo" both perform as grammatical postpositions.

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