Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phrasal prepositional verb

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English

Syllables: phrasal prepo-si-tion-al verb
IPA

38

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A multi-word verb, consisting of a verb followed by an adverbial particle and a preposition, that has idiomatic meaning.

Example Sentences

"In every section of this invaluable work new light is thrown on ancient problems - phrasal verbs (bring up, put off), phrasal-prepositional verbs (catch up on, come up with) [...] duratives, sentence adverbs, and so on."

Inflected Forms

phrasal prepositional verbs (plural)

Questions

What does phrasal prepositional verb mean?: A multi-word verb, consisting of a verb followed by an adverbial particle and a preposition, that has idiomatic meaning.

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