Finnish

Adverb

edes

1. even (suggesting a minimum in a question)

   Voiko hän edes juosta?

   Can s/he even run?

2. even, so much as (suggesting a minimum in a negative statement)

   Hän käveli huoneeseen kysymättä edes lupaa ja alkoi selailla heidän tiedostojaan.

   Without so much as asking, he walked into the office and started digging through their files.

3. at least (suggesting a minimum in a positive statement)

   Voisit edes lähettää hänelle kortin.

   You could at least send her/him a card.

4. (with the negation verb) not ... even:

   Edes se ei auttanut.

   Not even that helped.

   Älä edes kuvittele!

   Don't even think of it!

Inflection

Synonyms

• (even): -kaan
• (at least): ainakin, vähintään

Related terms

• See the inflection table.

See also

• jopa

See also

• jopa, sentään, ainakin, lainkaan, ollenkaan

Latin

Etymology 1

Form of the verb edō ‎(“I eat”).

Verb

edēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of edō

Etymology 2

Form of the verb ēdō ‎(“I dispatch”).

Verb

ēdēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of ēdō

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish edessä.

Adverb

edes

1. in front (stationary)

Postposition

edes

1. in front of, at the front of (stationary location)

Related terms

• edehe
• edespäi

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “впереди, перед, передо”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika