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Examples
The man in the story walked along the beach.

prepositional phrase (plural prepositional phrases)

(grammar) A phrase containing both a preposition and its object or complement and which may be used as an adjunct or a modifier.
Synonym: (initialism) PP

Coordinate term: postpositional phrase

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: sintagma preposizionale m
Japanese: 前置詞句 (ぜんちしく, zenchishiku)
Khmer: កន្សោមមានធ្នាក់ (kɑnsaom mien tneak)
Korean: 전치사구 (jeonchisagu)
Polish: wyrażenie przyimkowe (pl) n
Portuguese: frase preposicional f
Russian: предло́жно-именно́е сочета́ние n (predlóžno-imennóje sočetánije), предло́жная гру́ппа (ru) f (predlóžnaja grúppa)
Sami:
Northern Sami: preposišuvdnagihppu
Scottish Gaelic: abairt roimhearach f
Spanish: sintagma preposicional m, frase preposicional f
Swedish: prepositionsfras (sv)
Turkish: ilgeç öbeği
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can