edeltä

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Finnish

Etymology

Ablative singular of esi-. Cognate to Estonian eelt.

Pronunciation

Adverb

edeltä

  1. in advance, beforehand

Postposition

edeltä (+ genitive or possessive suffix)

  1. from before, from ahead of
    Antonym: takaa
    Hän tuli heidän edeltään takaisin.
    S/he came back from ahead of them.

Inflection

Declension of esi- (type 27*F/käsi)
noun case singular pluraladverbial form singular plural
nominative esi- –superessive – –
genitive – –delative – –
partitive – –sublative – –
accusative – –lative (edes) –
inessive edessä –temporal – –
elative edestä –causative – –
illative eteen esiinmultiplicative – –
adessive edellä esillädistributive – –
ablative edeltä esiltätemp. dist. – –
allative edelle esilleprolative editse –
essive – –situative – –
translative – –oppositive – –
abessive – –
instructive etenkin
etenkään		 –
comitative – –
Personal/possessive forms of edeltä
no possessor edeltä
possessor singular plural
1st person edeltäni edeltämme
2nd person edeltäsi edeltänne
3rd person edeltään
edeltänsä

Derived terms

compounds

Related terms

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

Further reading

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