different between preposition vs determiner

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English preposicioun, from Old French preposicion, from Latin praepositio, praepositionem, from praepono (“to place before”). Compare French préposition. So called because it is placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in a bridge of iron, he comes from town, it is good for food, he escaped by running.

Alternative forms

• præposition (archaic)

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?p-?-z?sh'?n, IPA^(key): /?p??p??z???n/

Noun

preposition (plural prepositions)

1. (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
2. (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

Hypernyms

• (grammar, strict sense): adposition

Coordinate terms

• (grammar, strict sense): circumposition
• (grammar, strict sense): postposition

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• preverb

Etymology 2

pre- +? position

Alternative forms

• pre-position

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i?p??z???n/

Verb

preposition (third-person singular simple present prepositions, present participle prepositioning, simple past and past participle prepositioned)

1. To place in a location before some other event occurs.

   It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.

Translations

Finnish

Noun

preposition

1. genitive singular of prepositio

Interlingua

Noun

preposition (plural prepositiones)

1. (grammar) A word that is used in conjunction with a noun or pronoun in order to form a phrase.

Swedish

Noun

preposition c

1. a preposition (part of speech)

Declension

Related terms

• prepositionell
• prepositionsadverbial
• prepositionsattribut
• prepositionsuttryck

References

• preposition in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

determine +? -er

Noun

determiner (plural determiners)

1. (grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
2. (grammar) A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
3. Something that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
   • 1901: Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log

     The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship […]

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:determiner.

Synonyms

• (word class): determinative
• (grammatical function): determinative

Hypernyms

• (word class): function word

Hyponyms

• (word class): article (a/an, the), demonstrative determiner (this, those), possessive determiner, cardinal number (three, 50), quantifier (most, any, much, each)
  • predeterminer, central determiner, postdeterminer

Derived terms

• (in grammar): determiner phrase, predeterminer, postdeterminer, null determiner

Translations

See also

• Category:English determiners
• Category:Determiners by language
• article
• demonstrative

References

• determiner at OneLook Dictionary Search
• determiner in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP.

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin d?termin?.

Verb

determiner

1. to determine

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Latin

Verb

d?terminer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of d?termin?