säilöin

Säilöin is the first-person singular past tense form of the Finnish verb säilöä, meaning to preserve, store, or can. The form indicates that the speaker completed the action of preserving something in the past and is used in both everyday speech and written Finnish.

The word is commonly employed in contexts relating to preserving food, such as canning, drying, or freezing, but it can also apply to storing or safeguarding non-food items or information for future use. In narrative or recounting past events, säilöin communicates a completed act of preservation by the speaker.

A typical example is Säilöin marjoja talven varalle, which translates to I preserved berries for the winter. As a finite verb form, säilöin requires a subject, usually the speaker (minä), though Finnish often omits the subject when the context makes it clear.

Etymologically, säilöin derives from the verb säilöä. The form is part of the regular inflection pattern of säilöä in the past tense for the first-person singular, and it may appear in poetry or prose to describe past preservation actions.

Note that Säilöin is not a common proper noun and does not designate a standard name of a person or place. Its primary function is as a grammatical form of the verb, rather than as an independent lexical entry.