Pääsynä
Pääsynä is the essive case form of the Finnish noun pääsy, meaning access, entry, or admission. In Finnish grammar, the essive expresses a temporary state or a role, equivalent to “as” in English. Therefore pääsynä translates roughly to “as access” or “as the entry,” used when describing something that functions in the capacity of access to something else.
Morphology and function: The essive case is marked with the suffix -nä (or -na after consonants). Pääsynä
- Portaali toimii pääsynä järjestelmään. (The portal acts as an entry/access point to the system.)
- Tämä käyttöliittymä on pääsynä tietoihin. (This interface is the access to the information.)
In practice, pääsynä is most common in technical, administrative, or analytical descriptions where a feature or
Etymology and related forms: Pääsy comes from Finnish pääsy, and the essive form -nä reflects the broader