edellä

Finnish

Adessive singular of esi, from Proto-Finnic *eci. Compare also esi-.

edellä (comparative edemmällä)

above:
- Kuten edellä totesimme, me emme mahda asialle mitään.
  - As we noted above, there's nothing we can do about it.
noun + edellä = noun + first:
- Hän juoksi pää edellä puskaan.
  - S/he ran head first into the bush.

edellä (+ genitive)

(static) before, ahead of, in advance of:
- Hän juoksi heidän edellään. (compare edelle)
  - S/he ran ahead of them.

Declension of edellä

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	–	–

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