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Hei, minun nimeni on Paula. Hi everybody! I’m Paula.
Welcome to FinnishPod101.com’s “Suomea kolmessa minuutissa”. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Finnish.
In the last lesson, we learned how to use the verb pitää.
In this lesson, we will learn how to use tulla, the fourth verb in our series dedicated to the most common Finnish verbs.
tulla means "to come", and it’s used very often!
Let’s start with the conjugations for this verb.
Minä tulen, “I come”, sinä tulet, “you come”, hän tulee, “he or she comes”, me tulemme, “we come”, te tulette, “you come”, he tulevat, “they come”.
Let’s imagine a situation where a group of your friends are planning to go camping. They ask you if you would like to come too, tuletko sinä mukaan?
Supposing you want to go, you will say, Kyllä, minä tulen! That means "Yes, I will come!”
[slowly] Kyllä, minä tulen.
So let’s break down this answer.
First we had-
Kyllä which is simply "Yes", as we learned in the previous lessons.
Then minä, which is "I", and after that we have tulen, which is the conjugated form of tulla.
So, all together it is Kyllä, minä tulen.
Tulla can be used like the English verb “to come”. Often it also replaces the word for “to arrive”, saapua, as it is more simple to use.
A good word to remember, that is often used with tulla, is mukaan. It basically means “along” or “with”, so if you would like to ask your friend if she's coming with you, you can just say
Tuletko mukaan?
Tulla is often used when you want to confirm someone's plans, for example
Tuletko tänään kouluun?
Which would mean “are you coming to school today?”.
To answer this question, you can add something after the verb, for example Kyllä, mutta tulen myöhässä. Here you said "Yes, but I am coming late."
The word for “late” is myöhässä, and you can also use it by just saying Olen myöhässä, which is translated in English simply as “I am late”.
You can also use the verb tulla with an adjective. Then it would be similar to the English “to become” or “to get”.
For example, if you always get happy in the summer, you could say Minä tulen onnelliseksi kesällä. kesä is Finnish for summer.
Here you had the conjugated form Minä tulen, and the word onnellinen, which means happy. And as you noticed, we had to conjugate it and add the ending -ksi, to indicate a change.
Now it’s time for Paula’s Points.
Also in English there are a few other usages of “to come”, than just to physically come to a place. For example, “come to think of”. This can also be directly translated to Finnish by saying tulla ajatelleeksi.
Or when in English you would say “come to my senses”, which is also exactly the same in Finnish, tulla järkiinsä.
Tulin vihdoin järkiini! would mean “I have finally come to my senses!”
In this lesson, we learned how to use the verb tulla in it’s many different forms!
Now, our series about common Finnish verbs is over, and from the next lesson, we will start learning some question words in Finnish!
Do you already know how to ask “What” in Finnish? I’ll be waiting for you in the next Suomea kolmessa minuutissa lesson.
Nähdään pian!

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