tapaamis

Tapaamis is a Finnish noun referring to the act of meeting or a planned encounter between people. It can describe a casual gathering, an appointment, a business meeting, or a romantic date. The standard dictionary form is tapaaminen; tapaamis appears mainly as a stem in compounds or in inflected forms, as in tapaamispaikka (meeting place) or in the partitive or other cases.

Etymology: The word originates from the verb tavata (to meet) and the noun-forming suffix -minen, yielding tapaaminen, “the act of meeting.”

Usage: Tapaaminen is used to talk about scheduled encounters. In everyday language the term covers social and professional contexts. Common phrases include ensimmäinen tapaaminen (the first meeting), tapaamispaikka (meeting place), and tapaamisaika (time of meeting). The exact nuance depends on context.

Variants and related terms: The base form tapaaminen has related compounds and inflected forms, such as tapaamiset (meetings, plural nominative) and tapaamista (partitive singular). The stem tapaamis- appears in compound words and in inflected phrases.

See also: tapaaminen, tapaamispaikka, tapaamisaika.