sairastuitte

Sairastuitte is a Finnish verb form meaning “you (plural) fell ill” and is the second-person plural imperfect past tense of the intransitive verb sairastua, which means “to fall ill” or “to become sick.” It is used when the subject is a group addressed as te (you all) and refers to an event that occurred in the past.

The verb sairastua forms its past tense by taking the stem sairastu- and adding the personal ending for the second person plural, which is -tte. The full form is sairastuitte. Related past forms include sairastuin (I fell ill), sairastuit (you fell ill, singular), sairastui (he/she fell ill), and the corresponding plural forms sairastuimme and sairastuivat for we and they.

Usage notes: sairastuitte is appropriate in both written and spoken Finnish when addressing multiple people and describing a past illness episode. It may appear in medical reports, news articles, or narratives as well as in conversations among groups. Like other imperfect tense forms, it conveys a completed past action and does not specify duration unless supplemented by time expressions (for example, eilen “yesterday” or viime viikolla “last week”).

Etymology and related forms: sairastua derives from the root meaning “to be sick” and is related to the noun sairastaja (one who becomes ill) and other illness-related terms. The form sairastuitte is one of several personal past-tense endings Finns use to express past actions across different grammatical persons and numbers.