edessä

== Finnish == === Etymology === Inessive singular of esi-. Cognate with Estonian ees. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈedesːæ/, [ˈe̞de̞s̠ːæ] Rhymes: -edesːæ Syllabification(key): e‧des‧sä Hyphenation(key): edes‧sä === Postposition === edessä [with genitive and/or possessive form] (locative) in front of, ahead of Antonym: takana in the way (of) (also independently as an adverb) Synonym: tiellä ==== Usage notes ==== If the complement is a personal pronoun, edessä takes a possessive suffix, and the pronoun can then be omitted if it is a first-person or second-person pronoun (as is standard with possessive suffixes). === Adverb === edessä (of state) ahead Antonym: takana ==== Inflection ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== See the inflection table above and the derived terms under esi-. === Further reading === “edessä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023