Он допустил меня к работе.

Допустил is the masculine singular past tense form of допустить.

In this sentence, допустить кого-то к работе means something like:

• to allow someone to work
• to admit someone to work
• to authorize someone to start/resume work

It often sounds more formal than a simple allowed. It can suggest official permission, clearance, or letting someone take up duties.

The imperfective partner is допускать.

Because Russian finite verbs change form for tense, number, and in the past tense also gender.

Here:

• допустить = infinitive, to allow / to admit
• допустил = he allowed / he admitted

In the past tense:

• допустил = masculine
• допустила = feminine
• допустило = neuter
• допустили = plural

So он допустил literally means he allowed/admitted.

Меня is the accusative form of я.

It is the direct object of допустил:

• Он допустил кого? — меня

So the structure is:

• Он = he
• допустил = allowed/admitted
• меня = me

A common point of confusion is that меня also looks like the genitive form, but here it is accusative.

For personal pronouns, the accusative and genitive forms often look the same:

• я → меня
• ты → тебя
• мы → нас
• вы → вас

К работе uses the preposition к, which normally takes the dative case.

So:

• работа = work
• к работе = to work / for work / to the performance of work duties in this construction

The dative form is:

• работа → работе

This is part of the standard Russian pattern:

• допустить кого-то к чему-то

So:

• допустить меня к работе = to admit me to work / allow me to work

This is a very common learner question.

• на работу usually means to work in the sense of to the workplace / to one's job location
• к работе in this expression means to the activity or duties of work

Compare:

• Я иду на работу. = I’m going to work (physically going there)
• Меня допустили к работе. = I was allowed/admitted to work (I was permitted to begin or resume duties)

So допустить к работе is a fixed, common expression meaning official or practical permission to work, not physical movement to a workplace.

Yes, very much so.

Допустить к работе is a common collocation, especially in formal, legal, medical, technical, or workplace contexts. It can mean someone is cleared, authorized, or permitted to perform their duties.

For example, it may be used when someone is allowed to work after:

• medical clearance
• safety instruction
• training
• official approval
• an inspection or check

So this phrase often sounds more formal and institutional than just разрешить работать.

Both can often be translated as allowed, but they are not always identical.

Разрешил is the more general verb for permitted.

Допустил often suggests:

• official admission
• granting access
• letting someone proceed
• allowing someone to participate or begin duties
• clearance after meeting some condition

So:

• Он разрешил мне работать. = He allowed me to work.
• Он допустил меня к работе. = He admitted/cleared me for work; he let me start or resume work.

The second one often sounds more procedural or formal.

Допустить is perfective.

That means it presents the action as a completed whole: he did the act of allowing/admitting.

So Он допустил меня к работе focuses on the completed result: I was admitted/cleared.

The imperfective partner is допускать. That would be used for repeated actions, process, or general facts, for example:

• Он допускал меня к работе каждый день.
  He used to allow me to work every day.

With допустил, the sentence sounds like a single completed event.

Usually no, not in the physical-movement sense.

An English speaker might hear to work and think of going to work, but Russian допустить к работе normally means:

• to let someone start working
• to permit someone to perform duties
• to admit someone to the work process

It is not mainly about movement to a place. It is about permission or authorization connected with the job itself.

In this phrase, работа is best understood as work in the sense of work duties / employment activity.

So к работе here means something like:

• to work
• to the job duties
• to the performance of work

It is not necessarily one specific task. The phrase often refers to someone being allowed to do their job.

Yes. Russian word order is flexible, though it affects emphasis.

The neutral order here is:

• Он допустил меня к работе.

Other orders are possible, for example:

• Меня он допустил к работе.
  Emphasis on me: It was me that he admitted to work.

• К работе он допустил меня.
  Stronger emphasis or contrast, less neutral.

For a learner, the original order is the safest and most neutral.

Yes. In the past tense, Russian verbs also show gender in the singular.

So допустил tells us the subject is:

• singular
• masculine

That matches он.

If the subject were она, it would be:

• Она допустила меня к работе.

Here are some useful patterns:

• Он допустил меня к работе.
  He admitted/allowed me to work.

• Она допустила меня к работе.
  She admitted/allowed me to work.

• Они допустили меня к работе.
  They admitted/allowed me to work.

• Меня допустили к работе.
  I was admitted/allowed to work.
  This is a very natural impersonal/passive-like Russian way to say it.

That last version is especially common when the person or authority doing it is not important.

Because the verb form already points to the subject:

• допустил = he allowed/admitted

Also, Russian subjects in simple sentences are normally in the nominative case, and меня is not nominative. The nominative form would be я.

So:

• он = subject
• меня = object

The stress is:

• Он допусти́л меня́ к рабо́те.

A rough pronunciation guide:

• Он = on
• допусти́л = da-poos-TEEL
• меня́ = mee-NYA
• к = k
• рабо́те = ra-BO-te

The most important stress points are:

• допусти́л
• меня́
• рабо́те

It is generally neutral to formal.

Because of допустить к работе, it can sound fairly formal or institutional, especially in contexts like:

• workplace procedures
• safety rules
• medical clearance
• administration

In very casual everyday speech, a Russian speaker might choose a simpler wording depending on context, such as:

• Он разрешил мне работать.
• Он позволил мне работать.

But Он допустил меня к работе is perfectly normal and natural, especially when the idea is official permission or admission.