päästä

See also: paasta

Finnish

Etymology 1

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).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpæːstæˣ/, [ˈpæːs̠tæ(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -æːstæ
  • Syllabification(key): pääs‧tä

Verb

päästä

  1. (intransitive) to get to, reach, arrive at/in (+ illative/allative) (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.
  2. (intransitive) to get to go, be allowed/permitted to go
    päästä irtito get loose, separate
    Koska pääsemme käymään ulkomailla?
    When will we get to go abroad?
  3. (intransitive) to get in, be admitted to (+ illative)
  4. (intransitive) to make it to, get to (a place/level), reach, attain, achieve (+ illative)
  5. (auxiliary + illative of the third infinitive) to manage (to do; to happen by accident)
  6. (intransitive) to get rid of (a person); to get over (a feeling) (+ elative)
    Kuinka päästä peloistaan?
    How to get over one's fears?
  7. (auxiliary + elative of the third infinitive) to avoid, escape, get out of, not have/need, be spared the necessity of
    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.
  8. (intransitive) to evade, elude, escape, get off/by (+ elative)
  9. (intransitive) to be released/discharged (from a hospital; from prison)
    Pääsen sairaalasta huomenna.
    I will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow.
Conjugation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Further reading

Etymology 2

Elative singular of pää.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpæːstæ/, [ˈpæːs̠tæ]
  • Rhymes: -æːstæ
  • Syllabification(key): pääs‧tä

Postposition

päästä (+ genitive)

  1. in, after, a [period] from (after a period of time)
    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.
  2. (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.
Inflection
→○ illative päähän
inessive päässä
○→ elative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Noun

päästä

  1. elative singular of pää

Further reading

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpæːstæˣ/, [ˈpæːs̠tæ(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -æːstæ
  • Syllabification(key): pääs‧tä

Verb

päästä

  1. inflection of päästää:
    1. indicative present connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative present
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative
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