adposition
Noun
Meaning
adposition (plural adpositions)
(grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
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Examples
In addition, there is a "relator" (which can be of multiple lexical categories, but is most commonly an affix or adposition).
The essive case is marked by use of the adposition "en", which translates to English as "on".