Sysätä

Sysätä is a Finnish verb meaning to push, shove, thrust or to cause something to move by a sudden force. It is used for physical actions (e.g., pushing an object or person) and figurative actions such as shifting responsibility, passing a task forward, or giving an impetus to a process. The related noun sysäys denotes a push, shove or impulse, and is commonly used of both literal and metaphorical forces.

In usage, sysätä appears in many common expressions and verb phrases: sysätä syrjään (to push aside), sysätä eteenpäin (to pass on, advance), and sysätä vastuuta (to shift responsibility). It functions in everyday speech as well as in administrative and political contexts when describing the transfer of duties or decisions.

Grammatical forms include the infinitive sysätä and participial forms used to build compound tenses; the verb behaves according to Finnish conjugational patterns. Pronunciation follows Finnish phonology, with the stress on the first syllable.

Etymologically, sysätä is of Finnic origin and shares characteristics with other Uralic verbs describing motion and force, though precise proto-forms are uncertain. Synonyms in Finnish depend on context and include työnnellä (to push repeatedly), lykätä (to shove or postpone, in some uses), and työntää (to push). The verb is a commonplace element of Finnish vocabulary, flexible in both literal and figurative registers.