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

Derived terms
compounds

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

Further reading
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