päästessä

Päästessä is a Finnish verbal form derived from the verb päästä, meaning to get out, to release, or to let go. It is a participial form used to create adverbial clauses that designate the time or circumstance of an action, roughly corresponding to “when/while getting out” or “upon release” in English. The form is most commonly found in written Finnish, including formal, descriptive, or narrative passages.

The form is built from the verb stem and the participial suffix -essa, producing a present-participle-like construction. In Finnish, participial forms can be inflected with possessive suffixes to indicate the subject of the main clause. For example, pöytä kirjoitetaan if you adapt the demonstrative structure; in practice the most common variants are без possessive and with second-person possessive. In actual use, one often encounters phrases such as päästessäsi ulos talosta, which means “as you go out of the house,” illustrating how the form links to the main clause.

Usage notes: päästessä appears in more formal or literary styles and may be less common in everyday spoken Finnish. It can introduce circumstances, timing, or conditions in subordinate clauses, and it is important to distinguish it from related forms such as päästä (to get out) and päästää (to release).

See also: Finnish grammar, participles, verb päästä, verb päästää.