edessä

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See also: Edessa and Edessae

Finnish

Etymology

Inessive singular of esi-. Cognate with Estonian ees.

Pronunciation

Postposition

edessä

  1. (static) in front of, ahead of
    Antonym: takana
    Hän seisoo talon edessä.
    S/he stands in front of the house.
    Hän seisoo (meidän) edessämme.
    S/he stands in front of us.
    Hän seisoo talomme edessä.
    S/he stands in front of our house.
  2. in the way (of) (also independently as an adverb)
    Synonym: tiellä
    En minä voi, kun olet edessä!
    I can't when you're in the way!

Usage notes

  • If the complement is a personal pronoun, edessä takes a possessive suffix, and the pronoun can then be omitted if it is a first-person or second-person pronoun (as is standard with possessive suffixes).

Adverb

edessä

  1. (static) ahead
    Antonym: takana

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 edessä
no possessor edessä
possessor singular plural
1st person edessäni edessämme
2nd person edessäsi edessänne
3rd person edessään
edessänsä

Derived terms

compounds

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

Further reading

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