edestä
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Elative singular of esi-. Cognate with Estonian eest.
Pronunciation
[edit]Postposition
[edit]edestä [with genitive and/or possessive form]
- 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.
- for, on behalf of
- Synonym: puolesta
- Vanhemmat raatoivat lastensa edestä.
- The parents toiled for their children.
- (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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Declension of esi- (type 27*F/käsi)
|
Personal/possessive forms of edestä | ||
---|---|---|
no possessor | edestä | |
possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | edestäni | edestämme |
2nd person | edestäsi | edestänne |
3rd person | edestään edestänsä |
Adverb
[edit]edestä
- from the front, from ahead
- Antonym: takaa (“from behind”)
- Tuuli puhaltaa suoraan edestä.
- The wind blows straight from ahead.
- out of the way
- Synonym: tieltä
- Pois edestä!
- Get out of the way!
- Pois edestäni!
- Get out of my way!
Usage notes
[edit]Can be used postpositionally (+ genitive) and/or with a possessive suffix (when the complement is a personal pronoun).
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
- edestäkäsin
- edestäladattava
- edestäpäin
- edestäpäinen (heraldry term)
Related terms
[edit]See the inflection table above and the derived terms under esi-.
Further reading
[edit]- “edestä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02