Tulla

Translations

1. to come (move nearer)
   • Milloin juna tulee?
     • When is the train coming?
   • Juna tulee Turusta Helsinkiin.
     • The train is coming from Turku to Helsinki.
   • Tule katsomaan!
     • Come look!
   • Milloin hän tulee (takaisin) syömästä?
     • When will he come (back) from eating?
2. to become, get, go, turn
   1. (impersonal + elative) to become, get, go, turn (noun, adjective, participle, etc.)
      • Hänestä tuli rikas.
        • He became rich.
      • Heistä tuli hulluja. (in the plural, the partitive case is used)
        • They became crazy.
   2. to become, get, go, turn [with translative] (usually an adjective or a participle, only rarely a noun)
      • He tulivat hulluiksi.
        • They went crazy.
      • Huomenna tulee kuluneeksi sata vuotta hänen syntymästään.
        • Tomorrow it will be one hundred years since he was born.
3. to come into, get [with illative] (enter a state of being)
   • tulla humalaan ― to get drunk
4. (impersonal + genitive) to have to, be to, should, be supposed to [with first infinitive]
   • Minun tulee tehdä tämä huomiseksi.
     • I have to do this by tomorrow.
   • Tämä tulee tehdä huomiseksi.
     • This has to be done by tomorrow.
5. A verb used to construct the emphatic future tense; the present tense is usually used instead as a future tense. [with illative of third infinitive]
   • Nimeni on Tapani ja tapani tulette tuntemaan.
     • My name is Tapani and you will learn my ways.
6. Used to express the passive voice for arbitrary verbs [with translative of past passive participle]
   • Hän tuli valituksi.
     • He was chosen.
   • Tapa tai tule tapetuksi.
     • Kill or be killed.
7. 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 [with partitive of past passive participle]
   • Mitä tuli sanottua?
     • What did you say?
8. to happen to do, manage to do (more or less unintentionally), to succeed in doing (more or less unintentionally) [with translative of past active participle]
   • Hän tuli tehneeksi pahan virheen.
     • She managed to make a big mistake.
9. (slang) to cum, orgasm

Conjugations

Indicative Conjugations

The present, imperfect, perfect, and pluperfect (past perfect) tenses in English correspond to "speaks", "spoke", "has spoken", and "had spoken".

Conditional Conjugations

The conditional present and perfect moods in English typically correspond to "would" and "would have".