Crossword-Solution: POSTPOSITIONS 13 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

The proper Gypsy plural terminations are retained in nouns, but in declension prepositions are generally substituted for postpositions, and those prepositions English.

There is nothing in the Malay language which corresponds with the _cases_ of a Latin, Greek, or Sanskrit noun, which are formed by changes of termination, or of a Hindustani noun, which are formed by postpositions.

Declension is replaced by a highly developed postpositional system; first, the definite article itself _a_ (plural _ak_) is a postposition--_zaldi_, "horse," _zaldia_ "the horse," _zaldiak_, "the horses." The declensional suffixes or postpositions, which, just like our prepositions, may be added to one another, are postponed to the article when the noun is definite.

Cases are formed by adding postpositions and suffixes, usually to a modified form of the noun which is commonly called the oblique base.

Compared with Mongol and Manchu they have a much greater wealth of forms, both in declension and conjugation; the suffixes form one word with the root and are not wholly or partially detachable postpositions; the pronominal element is freely represented in the suffixes added to both verbs and nouns.