vasta-

See also: vasta

Finnish

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: vas‧ta

Prefix

vasta-

  1. Expressing opposition or contrast: counter-, anti-.
  2. Expressing that something took place recently: new-, freshly, just, recently.
  3. Expressing reciprocity: return
Inflection

Like many other Finnish prefixes, vasta- has inflected forms to a limited extent that are used as adverbs.

Declension of vasta-
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

Derived terms

expressing contrast

expressing recentness

expressing reciprocity

  • vastapalvelus
  • vastapeluri
  • vastarakkaus

Anagrams
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