postposition

This term is primarily used in linguistics to describe languages where markers of case, direction, or location follow the noun, such as in Japanese, Korean, or Turkish. It serves as the direct structural opposite of a preposition, which precedes the noun in languages like English or French.

Because it is a technical term of art, it is rarely encountered outside of academic discussions regarding grammar, syntax, or language learning. It is distinct from a suffix in that a postposition can often function as an independent word, whereas a suffix is always a bound morpheme attached to a root.