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tulla.

to come (move nearer)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈtulːɑˣ/[ˈt̪ulːɑ̝(ʔ)]
  1. to come (move nearer)

    intransitive
    Milloin juna tulee?
    Juna tulee Turusta Helsinkiin.
  2. to become, get, go, turn to become, get, go, turn (noun, adjective, participle, etc.)

    impersonal · intransitive · with-elative
    Hänestä tuli rikas.
    Heistä tuli hulluja.
  3. to become, get, go, turn to become, get, go, turn [with translative] (usually an adjective or a participle, only rarely a noun)

    intransitive
    He tulivat hulluiksi.
    Huomenna tulee kuluneeksi sata vuotta hänen syntymästään.
  4. to become, get, go, turn to become, turn out (noun, adjective, participle, etc.; in some cases may specifically express that something was that way from the beginning)

    impersonal · intransitive · nonstandard · with-nominative
    Puuro tuli mustaa.
  5. to come into, get [with illative] (enter a state of being)

    intransitive
    tulla humalaan
  6. to have to, be to, should, be supposed to

    impersonal · intransitive · with-genitive
    Minun tulee tehdä tämä huomiseksi.
    Tämä tulee tehdä huomiseksi.
  7. A verb used to construct the emphatic future tense; the present tense is usually used instead as a future tense.

    intransitive
    Nimeni on Tapani ja tapani tulette tuntemaan.
  8. Used to express the passive voice for arbitrary verbs

    intransitive
    Hän tuli valituksi.
    Tapa tai tule tapetuksi.
  9. Used to express the passive voice, particularly if the action is less definite, or in direct questions; mostly synonymous with the previous use with the translative, however

    intransitive
    Mitä tuli sanottua?
  10. to happen to do, manage to do (more or less unintentionally), to succeed in doing (more or less unintentionally)

    intransitive
    Hän tuli tehneeksi pahan virheen.
  11. to cum, orgasm

    intransitive · slang
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *tuldak (compare Estonian tulema), from Proto-Uralic *tule- (compare Eastern Mari толаш (tolaš), Tundra Nenets тось (tosʹ°)). * (emphatic future tense marker, auxiliary): Likely Swedish influence, after Swedish komma (att) and bli. * (to cum, orgasm): Probably a semantic loan from English come.

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