"Die Milch steht auf dem Tisch."
Translation:The milk is on the table.
November 21, 2017
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No, it can't. ‘Auf’ and other prepositions can go at the end of the sentence when acting as separable prefixes for a verb (for example ‘ich stehe auf’, ‘I stand up’, from the separable verb ‘aufstehen’). Here ‘auf’ is acting as a preposition, introducing ‘Tisch’.
To illustrate the point in English, think of the different ways ‘in’ acts in ‘I stood in for him’ (‘in’ isn't introducing a noun, it's just part of the phrasal verb ‘to stand in (for s/o)’) and ‘I am standing in the room’ (‘in’ is a preposition introducing ‘the room’).