edes

See also: EDES, édes, and ėdęs

Finnish

Etymology

From lative singular esi- +‎ -s.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: e‧des

Adverb

edes

1. even (suggesting a minimum in a question)

   Voiko hän edes juosta?

   Can s/he even run?

2. even, so much as (suggesting a minimum in a negative statement)

   Hän käveli huoneeseen kysymättä edes lupaa ja alkoi selailla heidän tiedostojaan.

   Without so much as asking, he walked into the office and started digging through their files.

3. at least (suggesting a minimum in a positive statement)

   Voisit edes lähettää hänelle kortin.

   You could at least send her/him a card.

4. (with the negation verb) not ... even:

   Edes se ei auttanut.

   Not even that helped.

   Älä edes kuvittele!

   Don't even think of it!

Inflection

Declension of edes 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 – – abessive etenkin etenkään – instructive – – comitative – –

Synonyms

• (even): -kaan
• (at least): ainakin, vähintään

Related terms

• See the inflection table.

• esi-
• edellinen
• edeltää
• edellyttää
• edesmennyt

• edetä
• edistää
• edistyä
• esiintyä

• esine
• esitellä
• esittää
• esittäytyä
• eteinen
• etevä

See also

• jopa

See also

• jopa, sentään, ainakin, lainkaan, ollenkaan

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Latin

Etymology 1

Form of the verb edō (“I eat”).

Verb

(deprecated template usage) edēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of edō

Etymology 2

Form of the verb ēdō (“I dispatch”).

Verb

(deprecated template usage) ēdēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of ēdō

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Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Related to Finnish edessä.

Adverb

edes

1. in front (stationary)

Postposition

edes

1. in front of, at the front of (stationary location)

Related terms

• edehe
• edespäi

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “впереди, перед, передо”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika