päästämään

Päästämään is the infinitive form known as the ma-infinitive of the Finnish verb päästää. The core meanings of päästää include to let, to permit, to allow, to release, or to set free. As a non-finite form, päästämään appears in constructions where the action of letting or permitting is described without marking a specific subject or tense. It is used in more formal or written Finnish and in certain non-finite clauses to express purpose, intention, or continuation of an action.

In ordinary speech, the finite verb päästää is used with a subject to state who lets whom in, out, or through. For example, someone might say that they let a person inside or release an animal outside, using the standard finite forms of päästää in different tenses and persons. The ma-infinitive päästämään commonly shows up in subordinate or compound constructions where the speaker is outlining intention or facilitating a future action, and it can appear after auxiliary expressions or verbs that require an infinitive complement.

Common usage involves phrases related to passage and release, such as letting someone in or letting something pass, and it can also appear in more abstract senses of permitting or enabling an action to occur. The word is closely related to other Finnish verbs about movement and permission, such as päästä (to get out, to reach) and related nouns like päästö (emission), which is etymologically distinct but shares a common root form.

See also: päästö, päästä, péré. The form päästämään is a non-finite variant of päästää and should be distinguished from the related noun and other infinitive forms in Finnish grammar.