asuin

Asuin is the first-person singular past tense form of the Finnish verb asua, meaning “to live” or “to reside.” It is a finite verb form used to state that the speaker lived somewhere in the past. In Finnish, past indicative forms are built from the verb stem with person-specific endings; for asua the forms are asuin, asuit, asui, asuimme, asuitte, asuivat.

Examples illustrate its use in narrative or personal recollection. Asuin Helsingissä kaksi vuotta. Mä asuin siellä lapsuuteni, ennen kuin muutimme. The form commonly appears with a locative and a time expression to indicate duration, such as “viisi vuotta,” “kolme kuukautta,” or other time frames.

Related forms and related meanings are:

- Present tense: asun (I live)

- Present participle: asuva (living, resident)

- Past participle: asuttu (lived, inhabited)

The word itself is not a noun or a proper name; it functions solely as a finite verb form within a sentence and does not stand alone as a unit with independent lexical meaning outside its verbal role.

Usage notes:

- The past tense “asuin” appears in both formal and informal contexts, including storytelling and biographical statements.

- Negative past forms exist using the standard Finnish negation, for example En asunut Helsingissä kolme vuotta.