Päästä

Translations

1. (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!

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 and translative 'as']
4. (intransitive) to make it to, get to (a place/level), reach, attain, achieve [with illative and translative 'as']
5. (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
6. (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.”)

7. to manage (to do; to happen by accident) [with illative of third infinitive]
8. (intransitive) to get rid of (a person); to get over (a feeling) [with elative]
   • Kuinka päästä peloistaan?

     How to get over one's fears?

9. 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 them.

10. (intransitive) to evade, elude, escape, get off/by [with elative]
11. (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".