saapui

Saapui is a Finnish verb form meaning “arrived.” It is the third-person singular past tense of the intransitive verb saapua, which means to arrive or reach a destination. As a finite verb form, saapui indicates that a single subject performed the action in the past. Other persons or numbers use different past-tense forms of saapua.

Usage of saapui occurs in narrative writing, news reporting, and everyday speech when describing someone arriving. It is commonly followed by time or location phrases, for example: Hän saapui eilen. or Hän saapui kello kahdeksan. (He/She arrived yesterday; He/She arrived at eight o’clock.)

Notes

Saapui functions strictly as a verb form and is not used as a noun. The infinitive of the verb is saapua. Like other Finnish verbs, saapui changes with subject person and number in its related past-tense forms.

See also

saapua, Finnish verbs, Finnish grammar