edellä

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Finnish

Etymology

Adessive singular of esi-.

Pronunciation

Adverb

edellä (comparative edemmällä, no superlative)

  1. above, before (in text)
    Synonym: yllä
    Kuten edellä totesimme, me emme mahda asialle mitään.
    As we noted above, there's nothing we can do about it.

Postposition

edellä

  1. (static) before, ahead of, in advance of
    Antonym: takana
    Hän juoksi heidän edellään.
    S/he ran ahead of them.
    Compared to edelle, this means he/she was ahead of them this entire time, as opposed to running in front of them now.

Postposition

edellä

  1. first, in front
    Hän juoksi pää edellä puskaan.
    S/he ran head first into the bush.

Inflection

Personal/possessive forms of edellä
no possessor edellä
possessor singular plural
1st person edelläni edellämme
2nd person edelläsi edellänne
3rd person edellään
edellänsä

Derived terms

compounds

See the inflection table above and the derived terms under esi-.

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