läpästä

läpästä is a Finnish verb meaning "to pass" or "to get through" in a physical, figurative or procedural sense. It is a regular verb belonging to the -stä class, and its basic forms are läpäistä (infinitive), läpäis (present tense), läpäisin (past tense) and läpäisinny (future tense). In everyday speech, the verb is used to describe passing through a doorway, crossing a river, or overcoming an obstacle. For example, "Yrittäjä läpäisi vaikean tarkastusprosessin" translates as "The entrepreneur passed a difficult inspection process." The verb also appears in idiomatic contexts such as läpäistä koe (to pass an exam) or läpäistä tapaaminen (to get through a meeting). While the infinitive can be contracted to läpäisenna in certain dialects, the standard Finnish orthography maintains the double 'ä' in the infinitive form. In grammatical constructions, läpästä can take various prepositions: läpäistä portti, läpäistä yli, or läpäistä alulle. The verb's past participle is läpäisty, used in passive or semi-passive sentences. The root stem läpä- is closely related to other verbs like läpi (through) and läpäisy (passage), forming a cohesive semantic field around the concept of moving or succeeding from one side to another.

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