loppuun

Loppuun is a Finnish illative form of the noun loppu, meaning end or finish. It functions as a case-marked complement rather than a standalone word, and it is used with verbs to express bringing something to its end or to completion. In practice, loppuun denotes the endpoint of an action or process.

Common uses and meanings include bringing about completion, finalizing, or concluding. It often appears in verbal phrases such as saada loppuun (to have something completed), viedä loppuun (to carry through to completion), and saattaa loppuun (to bring to a close). For example, “Hankkeen loppuun saattaminen kestää vielä useamman kuukauden” means “Carrying the project to completion will take several more months.” “Keskustelu vietiin loppuun” means “The discussion was carried through to the end.” The noun form can also appear in compounds like loppuun saattaminen, which translates roughly to “the completion/bringing to an end of (an action).”

Etymology and grammar: loppuun is the illative singular of loppu, signaling direction toward the end. Because it represents a grammatical case, loppuun mainly occurs as part of a verb phrase or a noun phrase describing completion. It is more frequent in written or formal Finnish, though it is common in everyday expressions involving finishing tasks.

Related terms include loppu (end), loppuun asti (to the end), and the process-oriented loppuun saattaminen (the act of bringing to completion). While closely related to phrases about finishing, loppuun itself specifies the endpoint and is best understood within its idiomatic verb constructions.