kuoli

Kuoli is the past tense form of the Finnish verb kuolla, meaning "to die." It is used to indicate that a person or other living being died at a certain point in the past. In Finnish, kuolla is conjugated with a full paradigm, including present and past tenses. Examples of present tense forms are minä kuolen (I die), sinä kuolet (you die), hän kuolee (he/she dies), me kuolemme (we die), te kuolette (you die), he kuolevat (they die). The corresponding past tense forms are minä kuolin, sinä kuolit, hän kuoli, me kuolimme, te kuolitte, he kuolivat; kuoli is the third-person singular past form: “he/she died.”

Kuoli is commonly found in obituaries, historical narratives, news reports, and literature to state that death occurred in the past. The related past participle kuollut means "dead" and is used as an adjective or in compound tenses, as in Hän on kuollut (He has died) or Hän on kuollut mies (a man who is dead).

Etymologically, kuolla is a native Finnish verb linked to the noun kuolema, meaning "death." The vocabulary forms kuoli, kuollut, and kuolema are closely related and frequently appear together in Finnish language contexts describing death and dying. See also kuolema, kuollut, and kuoleminen for related terms and grammatical usage.