Päästä

Translations

1. (intransitive) to get to, reach, arrive at/in [with illative or 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 irti ― to get loose, separate

   Koska pääsemme käymään ulkomailla?

   When will we get to go abroad?

3. (intransitive) to get in, be admitted to [with illative]
4. (intransitive) to make it to, get to (a place/level), reach, attain, achieve [with 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) [with 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 [with elative]
9. (intransitive) to be released/discharged (from a hospital; from prison)

   Pääsen sairaalasta huomenna.

   I will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow.

Conjugations

Indicative Conjugations

The present, imperfect, perfect, and pluperfect (past perfect) tenses in English correspond to "speaks", "spoke", "has spoken", and "had spoken".

Conditional Conjugations

The conditional present and perfect moods in English typically correspond to "would" and "would have".