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Hän kääntyi minuun päin ja sanoi... ― He turned to me and said...
Tämä on selvä muutos parempaan päin. ― This is a clear change for the better.
Sairas on toipumaan päin. ― The patient is getting better. (literally, “The patient is towards healing.”)
Vaimo on pieniin päin ― My wife is expecting a baby. (literally, “My wife is towards little ones.”)
Used to indicate approximate direction or location; multiple translations into English are possible; may not correspond to any word in the English translation if the direction is indicated in some other way.
tänne päin(also tännepäin) ― this way, in this direction
paljain päin ― with a bare head[i.e. without a hat or any other headwear on]
kasapäin ― heapmeal; in abundance
Further reading
“päin”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 4:
Lounaesse päin Barentsan merelt antiijaa materikkaa Valkia meri.
Towards the south of the Barents Sea the White Sea cuts into the mainland.