ylhäällä

Finnish

Etymology

  • From Proto-Uralic *wilä or *wülä (the superessive singular of ylä-).

Adverb

ylhäällä

  1. Ylhäällä refers to something being in a location which is above some other location. It is normally translated into English as up.
    Ylhäällä vuorilla. = Up in the mountains.
    He tulivat ulos kädet ylhäällä. = They came out with their hands up.
    Oletko jo ylhäällä? = Are you up already? (awake, out of bed)

Inflection

Declension of ylhäällä
noun case singular pluraladverbial
form		 singular plural
nominative – –superessive ylhäällä –
genitive – –delative ylhäältä –
partitive – –sublative ylhäälle –
accusative – –lative ylös –
inessive – –temporal – –
elative – –causative – –
illative – –multiplicative – –
adessive yllä –distributive – –
ablative yltä –temp. dist. – –
allative ylle –prolative yli, ylitse –
essive – –situative – –
translative – –oppositive – –
instructive – –
abessive – –
comitative – –
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