# edes
## Finnish
### Etymology

esi- +‎ -s (s-lative singular); originally "forward, forwards".

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈedes/, [ˈe̞de̞s̠]
* Rhymes: -edes
* Hyphenation: edes

### Adverb

edes
* even (suggesting an absolute minimum in a question)
    Voiko hän edes juosta?Is he even able to run?
* at least (suggesting an absolute minimum in a positive statement)
    Synonyms: ainakin, vähintään
    Voisit edes lähettää hänelle kortin.You could at least send her/him a postcard.
    Anna kymmenen tai edes viisi euroa.Give me ten or at least five euros.
* anyway (in any event)
    Synonyms: kuitenkin, kumminkin, sentään
    Hyvä, että edes ilma oli kaunis.Well, the weather was beautiful anyway.
* even, so much as (suggesting the lack of even a minimum of something in a negative statement)
    Synonym: -kaan
    Asun talossa, jossa ei ole edes vesijohtoa.I live in a house which doesn't even have tap water.
    Hän käveli huoneeseen kysymättä edes lupaa ja alkoi selailla heidän tiedostojaan.Without so much as asking, he walked into the room and started digging through their files.
    Älä edes kuvittele!Don't even think of it!
    Edes NN ei osannut auttaa.Even NN was not able to help.
* (as modifier) for-, fore-, forth (signifies being in front of something, often figuratively)
    edesmennyt ― deceased (compare foregone)
    edestakaisin ― back and forth
    edesvastuu ― legal liability (liability in front of the law)
* (as headword) on, onward (in some time-related expressions)
    tästedes ― from now on
* (dialectal, dated) forward, forwards

#### Inflection

Declension of esi- (type 27*F/käsi)
noun case
singular
pluraladverbial form
singular
plural
nominative
esi-
–superessive
genitive
–delative
partitive
–sublative
accusative
–lative
edes
inessive
edessä
–temporal
elative
edestä
–causative
illative
eteen
esiinmultiplicative
adessive
edellä
esillädistributive
ablative
edeltä
esiltätemp. dist.
allative
edelle
esilleprolative
editse
essive
–situative
translative
–oppositive
abessive
instructive
etenkin etenkään
comitative

#### Derived terms

* edespäin
* edesauttaa
* edeskäypä
* edesmennyt
* edesmennä
* edesottamus
* edestakaisin
* edesvastuu

#### Related terms

* See the inflection table.
* edellinen
* edellyttää
* edeltää
* edesauttaa
* edeskäypä
* edesmennyt
* edesottamus
* edespäin
* edestakainen
* edestakaisin
* edesvastuu
* edesvastuuton
* edetä
* edistyä
* edistää
* esiintyä
* esine
* esitellä
* esittäytyä
* esittää
* eteinen
* etevä
* tästedes
* vastedes

### See also

* jopa, sentään, ainakin, lainkaan, ollenkaan

### Further reading

* “edes”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## Latin
### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* aedēs, aedis, ēdis

#### Noun

ēdēs f (genitive ēdis); third declension
* (Medieval Latin, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of aedēs, alternative form of aedis (“temple, shrine, tomb, room", sing.: "dwelling (of gods)", pl.: "house, abode (for people)”)

##### Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

### Etymology 2

Form of the verb edō (“I eat”).

#### Verb

edēs
* second-person singular future active indicative of edō

### Etymology 3

Form of the verb ēdō (“I dispatch”).

#### Verb

ēdēs
* second-person singular future active indicative of ēdō

## 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
* in front (stationary)

### Postposition

edes
* 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]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika