prepositional phrase

English

Examples
The man in the story walked along the beach.

Noun

prepositional phrase (plural prepositional phrases)

1. (grammar) A phrase containing both a preposition and its object or complement; may be used as an adjunct or a modifier.

   Synonym: PP

Translations

phrase containing both a preposition and its complement

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: կապային կառույց (kapayin kaṙuycʻ), նախդրավոր կառույց (naxdravor kaṙuycʻ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 介詞短語／介词短语 (jiècí duǎnyǔ)

• Czech: předložková vazba f
• Danish: præpositionsforbindelse (da) c
• Dutch: voorzetselconstituent
• Finnish: prepositiolauseke
• French: syntagme prépositionnel (fr) m
• German: Präpositionalphrase (de) f
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: forsetningarliður m
• Italian: locuzione preposizionale f, sintagma preposizionale m
• 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 (ru) f (predlóžnaja grúppa)
• Scottish Gaelic: abairt roimhearach f
• Spanish: sintagma preposicional m
• Swedish: prepositionsfras (sv)
• Turkish: ilgeç öbeği
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• phrasal preposition
• Category:English prepositional phrases

Further reading

• prepositional phrase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia