edestä

== Finnish == === Etymology === Elative singular of esi-. Cognate with Estonian eest. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈedestæ/, [ˈe̞de̞s̠tæ] Rhymes: -edestæ Syllabification(key): e‧des‧tä Hyphenation(key): edes‧tä === Postposition === edestä [with genitive and/or possessive form] from in front of, from before; out of the way of Antonym: takaa for, on behalf of Synonym: puolesta out of the way (of) (also independently as an adverb) Synonym: tieltä (chiefly dialectal) for, equal to ==== Usage notes ==== If the complement is a personal pronoun, edestä 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): ==== Inflection ==== === Adverb === edestä from the front, from ahead Antonym: takaa (“from behind”) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== See the inflection table above and the derived terms under esi-. === Further reading === “edestä”, 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