Auxiliary words and the postposition

A postposition is an auxiliary word that stands after a noun, pronoun, verbal noun or participle and links that word to the head word of the sentence as a dependent. Bilan, uchun, kabi, singari, orqali, sayin and others are postpositions: akam bilan (with my brother), Vatan uchun (for the homeland), chaqmoq kabi (like lightning). A postposition adds meanings such as togetherness, purpose, likeness or reason to the word before it. The postposition itself is not a sentence member; together with the preceding word it forms one member — an object or an adverbial. Postpositions are divided into pure and functional ones.