vastaan

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: vas‧taan

Adverb

vastaan

  1. Back.
    hymyillä vastaan = to smile back
    taistella vastaan = to fight back
  2. ottaa ~ = to receive, meet, accept.

Synonyms

Postposition

vastaan (+ partitive)

  1. (of an opinion) against:
  2. (of movement) towards:
  3. (of movement) against:
  4. (in commerce) for; against:

Inflection

Declension of vastaan
noun case singular pluraladverbial
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

  • See the inflection table.
  • vasta-

Verb

vastaan

  1. First-person singular indicative present form of vastata.

Noun

vastaan

  1. Illative singular form of vasta.

Anagrams

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