A postposition is a word that expresses some sort of relationship between the preceding noun or pronoun — its object — and another part of the sentence; a postpositional phrase functions as an adjective or adverb. Postpositions are the equivalents of prepositions in languages where the object precedes the word, such as Japanese. Here are some examples:
Finnish: talon edessä (literally, "house in front of"; naturally, "in front of the house"), talon takana ("house behind of")
English has one postposition: 'ago'; however, English also has a tendency to form postpositional compound words, such as 'thereafter' and 'wherein', a quality likely borrowed from Latin, a fellow prepositional language.
