laittoi

Laittoi is the third-person singular past tense form of the Finnish verb laittaa. Laittaa means to put, place, or set, and in culinary contexts to prepare or cook. Laittoi is used when describing that someone performed such an action in the past.

In practice, laittaa covers a range of meanings depending on the object and construction. For example, with food, laittaa ruokaa or laittaa ruokaa valmiiksi can mean to cook or prepare a meal. With other objects, it can mean to place or set something somewhere, as in laittaa kirja pöydälle (to put the book on the table) or laittaa rahaa pöydälle (to put money on the table). The phrase laittaa päälle is common for turning something on, so laittoi television päälle means he turned the TV on. In everyday speech, the sense is often clear from context.

Grammatically, laittaa is a transitive verb, and laittoi is its imperfect (simple past) form for hän (he/she). Other past-person forms include minä laitoin, sinä laitoit, me laitoimme, te laitoitte, etc., following Finnish conjugation patterns for -taa verbs. The word is primarily a finite verb and appears in narrative and descriptive sentences to indicate a completed action in the past.

There is no widely recognized meaning of laittoi as a proper noun or independent concept beyond its role as a verb form. It is mainly encountered in Finnish language usage, not as an independent term with a separate definition.