edellä

Finnish

Etymology

Adessive singular of esi-.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈedelːæ/, [ˈe̞de̞lːæ]
  • Rhymes: -edelːæ
  • Syllabification(key): e‧del‧lä

Adverb

edellä (comparative edemmällä, no superlative)

  1. above, before (in text)
    Synonym: yllä
    Kuten edellä totesimme, me emme mahda asialle mitään.
    As we noted above, there's nothing we can do about it.

Postposition

edellä (+ genitive and/or possessive suffix)

  1. (static) before, ahead of, in advance of
    Antonym: takana
    Hän juoksi heidän edellään.
    S/he ran ahead of them.
    Compared to edelle, this means he/she was ahead of them this entire time, as opposed to running in front of them now.

Postposition

edellä (+ nominative)

  1. first, in front
    Hän juoksi pää edellä puskaan.
    S/he ran head first into the bush.

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 – –
instructive etenkin
etenkään		 –
abessive – –
comitative – –
Personal/possessive forms of edellä
no possessor edellä
possessor singular plural
1st person edelläni edellämme
2nd person edelläsi edellänne
3rd person edellään
edellänsä

Compounds
  • edelläpäin

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

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