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Definition 2024

vastaan

vastaan

Finnish

Adverb

vastaan

Back.

hymyillä vastaan = to smile back

taistella vastaan = to fight back
ottaa ~ = to receive, meet, accept.

Synonyms

(back) takaisin

Postposition

vastaan (+ partitive)

(of an opinion) against:
- Oletko sotaa vastaan?
  - Are you against the war?
(of movement) towards:
- Hän käveli minua vastaan.
  - S/he walked towards me.
- tulla jotakuta vastaan = to pick sb up
(of movement) against:
- uida virtaa vastaan = to swim against the stream
(in commerce) for; against:
- Myisimmekö auton taloa vastaan?
  - Would we sell a car for a house?
- kuittia vastaan = against a receipt

Inflection

Declension of vastaan

noun case	singular	plural	adverbial form	singular	plural
nominative	vasta-	–	superessive	–	–
genitive	–	–	delative	–	–
partitive	–	–	sublative	–	–
accusative	–	–	lative	–	–
inessive	vastassa	–	temporal	–	–
elative	–	–	causative	–	–
illative	vastaan	–	multiplicative	–	–
adessive	–	–	distributive	–	–
ablative	–	–	temp. dist.	–	–
allative	–	–	prolative	–	–
essive	–	–	situative	vastakkain	–
translative	–	–	oppositive	vastatusten	–
instructive	vasten	vastoin
abessive	–	–
comitative	–	–

Antonyms

(of an opinion: against) puolesta
(of movement: against) mukana

Related terms

See the inflection table.
vasta-

Verb

vastaan

First-person singular indicative present form of vastata.

Noun

vastaan

Illative singular form of vasta.

Anagrams

navasta, vanasta, vatsaan