resp.

Usage notes

 * Like the unabbreviated form, this abbreviation is used postfix, as in "X or Y, resp.". Some ESL writers use it infix, as in "X resp. Y" (sometimes with meaning 'or rather; more precisely; i. e.'), by false analogy with German , dated-syntax Danish as well as Dutch and Swedish , but this is not considered correct.

Adverb

 * 1)  In older orthography:

Usage notes

 * This abbreviation is used infix, just like German, not like the postfix English.