preposition

word or phrase able to connect a following noun or noun phrase (and often other parts of the speech) as a complement to some other part of the sentence, expressing a relation between them
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preposition

Summary

preposition is a part of speech[1]. preposition draws 154 Wikipedia views per month (part_of_speech category, ranking #14 of 36).[2]

Key Facts

  • preposition's instance of is recorded as part of speech[3].
  • preposition's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85106387[4].
  • preposition's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12042712p[5].
  • preposition's subclass of is recorded as adposition[6].
  • preposition's Commons category is recorded as Prepositions[7].
  • preposition's opposite of is recorded as postposition[8].
  • preposition's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 29886[9].
  • preposition's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/012hchc_[10].
  • preposition's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph174202[11].
  • preposition's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Prepositions[12].
  • preposition's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300411844[13].
  • preposition's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 415.7[14].
  • preposition's PSH ID is recorded as 6859[15].
  • preposition's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 409140[16].
  • preposition's represents is recorded as relation[17].
  • preposition's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0203290[18].
  • preposition's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • preposition's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • preposition's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • preposition's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000132300[22].
  • preposition's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#Preposition[23].
  • preposition's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/Preposition[24].
  • preposition's different from is recorded as adposition[25].
  • preposition's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 1366[26].
  • preposition's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 5756[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for preposition include prepositional syntagma[28].

Why It Matters

preposition draws 154 Wikipedia views per month (part_of_speech category, ranking #14 of 36).[2] preposition has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] preposition is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for preposition include prepositional syntagma[28].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . datcatinfo.termweb.eu. datcatinfo.termweb.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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