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etä-

etä-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eta"

Finnish

Prefix

etä-

distant, remote, long-distance, far-off

Inflection

Declension of etä-

noun case	singular	plural	adverbial form	singular	plural
nominative	etä-	–	superessive	etäällä	–
genitive	–	–	delative	etäältä	–
partitive	–	–	sublative	etäälle	–
accusative	–	–	lative	–	–
inessive	–	–	temporal	–	–
elative	–	–	causative	–	–
illative	–	–	multiplicative	–	–
adessive	–	–	distributive	–	–
ablative	–	–	temp. dist.	–	–
allative	–	–	prolative	–	–
essive	–	–	situative	–	–
translative	–	–	oppositive	–	–
instructive	–	–
abessive	–	–
comitative	–	–

The cases of etä- serve in Finnish only as adverbs.

Synonyms

(distant, remote, long-distance, far-off): kauko-

Derived terms

adjectives: etäinen
verbs: etääntyä

Related terms

See the inflection table.

Compounds

etätyö