Pysähtyy

Pysähtyy is a Finnish verb form meaning comes to a stop or stops. It is the third-person singular present indicative form of the intransitive verb pysähtyä, which describes a transition from motion or activity to a halted state.

The verb is used in a wide range of contexts. It can describe physical stopping, such as a vehicle or machine halting at a location (for example, a train stopping at a station or a machine stopping due to an error). It can also express a pause in an ongoing activity or process (for instance, a program that stops, or thoughts that come to a halt). In everyday speech, pysähtyy often conveys a momentary or complete interruption rather than a sustained end.

Grammatical notes are typically straightforward for Finnish learners: pysähtyä is an intransitive verb, and pysähtyy is its present-tense form for “he/she/it stops.” The word compounds naturally with nouns that indicate what is stopping, such as pysähtyy liikenteen valvovan valvontakeskuksen ohiasteen ates a scene, or with contexts like thoughts, plans, or conversations coming to a halt.

Related forms include the noun pysähtyminen (the act of stopping) and the verb pysäyttää (to stop something or someone else, a causative form). Pysähtyy remains common in written and spoken Finnish, used in everyday descriptions of delay, interruption, or halting of motion or processes.