pysähtyessä
Pysähtyessä is a Finnish adverbial participle form derived from the verb pysähtyä, meaning “to stop.” It is used to introduce a subordinate clause that describes a time-related or background circumstance for the action in the main clause. In practice, pysähtyessä translates roughly to “while stopping” or “upon stopping” in English, signaling that the two actions occur simultaneously or that one action occurs when the other happens.
Grammatical behavior and variants: pysähtyessä is part of the category of liitetyn lauseen konjunktiiviset partisiipit (conjunction
Usage notes: The construction is more typical of written Finnish and literary styles than casual speech. It
- Hän pysähtyessään kuunteli radiota. (While stopping, he listened to the radio.)
- Auto pysähtyessään vilkutti valoja. (As the car stopped, it flashed its lights.)
Pysähtyessä thus serves as a concise, stylistically elevated means of expressing a concurrent or contextual moment