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Definition 2024

edestä (+ genitive) (postposition)

from in front of, from before; out of the way of; sometimes in front of due to different usage in Finnish and English

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
Vanhemmat raatoivat lastensa edestä.
The parents toiled for their children.
(rare) used to express equal worth

Tein töitä kahden edestä.
I did the work of two.

Saisinko kymmenen euron edestä mansikoita?
Can I have ten euros' worth of strawberries?

Declension of edestä

noun case	singular	plural	adverbial form	singular	plural
nominative	esi-	–	superessive	–	–
genitive	–	–	delative	–	–
partitive	–	–	sublative	–	–
accusative	–	–	lative	(edes)	–
inessive	edessä	–	temporal	–	–
elative	edestä	–	causative	–	–
illative	eteen	esiin	multiplicative	–	–
adessive	edellä	esillä	distributive	–	–
ablative	edeltä	esiltä	temp. dist.	–	–
allative	edelle	esille	prolative	editse	–
essive	–	–	situative	–	–
translative	–	–	oppositive	–	–
instructive	etenkin etenkään	–
abessive	–	–
comitative	–	–

When the head word is a personal pronoun (which is often omitted, especially in 1st person), a possessive suffix is added to edestä:

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.

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