Some Greek help

I was just looking at some vocabulary and I wanted to ask a question.

I have read that kai is and. I also see that de or d' is but, and. It is also saying something about de being a postpositive. This is a word, especially a particle, that cannot stand as the first word in its clause. It usually stands second. Can you help me understand this? Maybe give an example or two?

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MJ. Smith

Does this help? I'm not sure what you are asking:

A number of Greek particles are
"postpositive," meaning that they cannot stand as the first
word in the Greek sentence; these are usually best
translated into English as the first word of the
sentence.

For example, the particle gar
meaning "for," is postpositive: "For he's a jolly good
fellow." In Greek, gar would be the second word in
the sentence.

Paul N

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/151149#Comment_151149

After enough translations you start to automatically reading them as the first word in the sentence.

William

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/151149#Comment_151149

Ok I think I understand....For example.

The Honda fit is a good car, but (de) its steering wheel is on the wrong side. Greek would read.......The Honda fit is a good car, its de steering wheel is on the wrong side.

with the understanding it should be in Greek. If that is right, I understand.

How does that and function as a postpositive?

Kevin Becker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/151194#Comment_151194

How does that and function as a postpositive?

You example is fine for illustrating word order differences between Greek and Hebrew.

Postpositive means that the work will almost exclusively come second in a sentence. Having a word that always comes second is helpful when you have an inflected language that doesn't have a set word to start with and was written without spaces!