edessä

See also: Edessa and Edessae

Finnish

Etymology

Inessive singular of esi, from Proto-Finnic *eci. Cognate with Estonian ees. Compare also esi-.

Pronunciation

Postposition

edessä (+ genitive)

  1. (static) in front of
    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.

Inflection
Declension of edessä
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 – –
instructive etenkin
etenkään		 –
abessive – –
comitative – –

Usage notes
  • If the headword is a personal pronoun, edessä takes a possessive suffix.
  • If the headword is minä (“I”), sinä (“you”), me (“we”) or te (“you”), it may be omitted.

Antonyms

Compounds
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