vastaan

Finnish

Etymology

From vasta-.

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: vas‧taan

Adverb

vastaan

  1. back
    hymyillä vastaan ― to smile back
    taistella vastaan ― to fight back
    Synonym: takaisin
  2. ottaa ~ = to receive, meet, accept

Postposition

vastaan (+ partitive)

  1. (of an opinion) against
    Oletko sotaa vastaan? ― Are you against the war?
    Antonym: puolesta
  2. (of movement) towards
    Hän käveli minua vastaan. ― S/he walked towards me.
    tulla jotakuta vastaan ― to pick sb up
  3. (of movement) against
    uida virtaa vastaan ― to swim against the stream
    Antonym: mukana
  4. (commerce) for; against
    Myisimmekö auton taloa vastaan? ― Would we sell a car for a house?
    kuittia vastaan ― against a receipt

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 – –

Compounds
  • vastaanhangoittelu
  • vastaanpano
  • See the inflection table.
  • vasta-

Verb

vastaan

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

Noun

vastaan

  1. Illative singular form of vasta.

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