tulla
VERB · Finnish
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The corpus records 10 senses of tulla. Each sense below has its own Add to list, so you choose the one you mean.
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Experimental coverage — measured below Partial on the number of recorded words, definitions, translations, word forms and pronunciation. Treat entries as evidence to check; meanings may be incomplete.
Finnish is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 8 source-backed words in Finnish. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: to come (move nearer) From a source of medium confidence.
intransitive
No translation has been attempted for this sense.
- Milloin juna tulee? When is the train coming? Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- Juna tulee Turusta Helsinkiin. The train is coming from Turku to Helsinki. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- Tule katsomaan! Come look! Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- Milloin hän tulee (takaisin) syömästä? When will he come (back) from eating? Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: to become, get, go, turn (noun, adjective, participle, etc.) From a source of medium confidence.
impersonal · intransitive · with-elative
No translation has been attempted for this sense.
- Hänestä tuli rikas. He became rich. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- Heistä tuli hulluja. They became crazy. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: to become, get, go, turn [with translative] (usually an adjective or a participle, only rarely a noun) From a source of medium confidence.
intransitive
No translation has been attempted for this sense.
- He tulivat hulluiksi. They went crazy. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- Huomenna tulee kuluneeksi sata vuotta hänen syntymästään. Tomorrow it will be one hundred years since he was born. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: to come into, get [with illative] (enter a state of being) From a source of medium confidence.
intransitive
No translation has been attempted for this sense.
- tulla humalaan to get drunk Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: to have to, be to, should, be supposed to From a source of medium confidence.
impersonal · intransitive · with-genitive
No translation has been attempted for this sense.
- Minun tulee tehdä tämä huomiseksi. I have to do this by tomorrow. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- Tämä tulee tehdä huomiseksi. This has to be done by tomorrow. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: A verb used to construct the emphatic future tense; the present tense is usually used instead as a future tense. From a source of medium confidence.
intransitive
No translation has been attempted for this sense.
- Nimeni on Tapani ja tapani tulette tuntemaan. My name is Tapani and you will learn my ways. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: Used to express the passive voice for arbitrary verbs From a source of medium confidence.
intransitive
No translation has been attempted for this sense.
- Hän tuli valituksi. He was chosen. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- Tapa tai tule tapetuksi. Kill or be killed. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: 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 From a source of medium confidence.
intransitive
No translation has been attempted for this sense.
- Mitä tuli sanottua? What did you say? Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: to happen to do, manage to do (more or less unintentionally), to succeed in doing (more or less unintentionally) From a source of medium confidence.
intransitive
No translation has been attempted for this sense.
- Hän tuli tehneeksi pahan virheen. She managed to make a big mistake. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: to cum, orgasm From a source of medium confidence.
intransitive · slang
No translation has been attempted for this sense.
No example is recorded for this sense.
Four of the 161 forms UniMorph's Finnish data (fin.2) records for tulla at the pinned commit: the active affirmative present indicative in the first and third persons singular (tulen, tulee), the active affirmative past indicative in the third person singular (tuli) and the active past participle (tullut). The other forms are not bound here, and are not inferred.
| indikatiivin preesens, yksikön 1. persoona indikatiivi · aktiivi · myönteinen · preesens · 1. persoona · yksikkö | tulen attested |
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| indikatiivin preesens, yksikön 3. persoona indikatiivi · aktiivi · myönteinen · preesens · 3. persoona · yksikkö | tulee attested |
| indikatiivin imperfekti, yksikön 3. persoona indikatiivi · aktiivi · myönteinen · imperfekti · 3. persoona · yksikkö | tuli attested |
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| aktiivin NUT-partisiippi partisiippi · aktiivi · mennyt aika | tullut attested |
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Etymology: 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. From a source of medium confidence.
No related word is recorded for this word.