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From Proto-Finnic *pä(ä)stäk. Cognate with Estonian pääsema (“to escape, to reach”), Votic pääse, and Livvi piästä (“to come off, to come out”).
päästä
- (intransitive) to get to, reach, arrive at/in [with illative or allative; or (with verbs) with illative of third infinitive ‘to do’] (a place)
Kuinka pääsen lentokentälle?
- How do I get to the airport?
En päässyt aivan huipulle, koska puhkesi lumimyrsky.
- I didn't quite reach the summit, because a snowstorm broke out.
Minun pitää päästä sinne tekemään yksi asia!
- I have to get there to do one thing!
- (intransitive) to get to go, be allowed/permitted to go
- päästä irti ― to get loose, separate
Koska pääsemme käymään ulkomailla?
- When will we get to go abroad?
- (intransitive) to get in, be admitted to [with illative and translative ‘as’]
- (intransitive) to make it to, get to (a place/level), reach, attain, achieve [with illative and translative ‘as’]
- (intransitive) to come out/off, slip out/off, pop out/off; be worked (loose) [with elative or ablative]
- kenkä pääsi jalasta ― the shoe slipped off the foot
- (impersonal + ablative) to (suddenly) come out (of an emotion), to burst out
Häneltä pääsi itku kun hän sai kuulla uutisen.
- She couldn't stop herself from crying when she heard the news.
- (literally, “A cry made its way out of her when she heard the news.”)
- to manage (to do; to happen by accident) [with illative of third infinitive]
- (intransitive) to get rid of (a person); to get over (a feeling) [with elative]
Kuinka päästä peloistaan?
- How to get over one's fears?
- to avoid, escape, get out of, not have/need, be spared the necessity of [with elative of third infinitive]
Pekka pääsi näkemästä kuinka hänen hevosensa tapettiin.
- Pekka avoided seeing how his horse was killed.
Tein kaikkeni päästäkseni tapaamasta heitä.
- I did my best to avoid meeting with them.
- (intransitive) to evade, elude, escape, get off/by [with elative]
- (intransitive) to be released/discharged (from a hospital; from prison)
Pääsen sairaalasta huomenna.
- I will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow.
- “1. päästä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Elative singular of pää.
päästä [with genitive]
- in, after, a [period] from (after a period of time; usually relative to now, especially when talking about future events)
- Synonym: kuluttua
Alle kuuden tunnin päästä pitäisi työkkäriin mennä, silti istun täällä.
- In under six hours I should go to the employment agency, and yet I'm sitting nevertheless here.
- (from) away (from a stated distance compared to something else)
Tykinkuulan arvioitiin tulleen noin kilometrin päästä.
- The cannon ball was estimated to have come from around a kilometer away.
→○ | illative | päähän |
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○ | inessive | päässä |
○→ | elative | päästä |
päästä
- “2. päästä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
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