edestä

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Finnish

Etymology

Elative singular of esi-. Cognate with Estonian eest.

Pronunciation

Postposition

edestä

  1. from in front of, from before; out of the way of
    Antonym: takaa
    Hän siirtyi talon edestä sivuun.
    S/he moved aside from in front of the house.
    Löysin talomme edestä sieniä.
    I found mushrooms in front of our house.
  2. for, on behalf of
    Synonym: puolesta
    Vanhemmat raatoivat lastensa edestä.
    The parents toiled for their children.
  3. (chiefly dialectal) for, equal to
    Tein töitä kahden edestä.
    I did the work of two.
    Saisinko kymmenen euron edestä mansikoita?
    Can I have ten euros' worth of strawberries?

Usage notes

  • If the complement is a personal pronoun, edestä 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):
    Metso lähti lentoon aivan (minun) edestäni.
    A wood grouse took wing right in front of me.
    Edestämme kuului avunhuutoja.
    In front of us we heard cries for help.

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 edestä
no possessor edestä
possessor singular plural
1st person edestäni edestämme
2nd person edestäsi edestänne
3rd person edestään
edestänsä

Adverb

edestä

  1. from the front, from ahead
    Antonym: takaa (“from behind”)
    Tuuli puhaltaa suoraan edestä.
    The wind blows straight from ahead.
  2. out of the way
    Synonym: tieltä
    Pois edestä!
    Get out of the way!
    Pois edestäni!
    Get out of my way!

Usage notes

Can be used postpositionally (+ genitive) and/or with a possessive suffix (when the complement is a personal pronoun).

Derived terms

compounds

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

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