tuhoutua
Tuhoutua is a Finnish verb meaning to be destroyed, to be ruined, or to come to ruin. It describes a state that results from damage, decay, or a destructive event rather than the action of a specific agent. The term can apply to physical objects such as buildings, landscapes, or artifacts, as well as to systems like ecosystems or plans, and it can also be used in a figurative sense, for example in expressions like unelmat tuhoutuvat (dreams are ruined).
In usage, tuhoutua is intransitive: the subject itself undergoes destruction or ruin, and the agent causing
Related forms include the noun tuho (destruction, ruin) and the process-oriented tuhoutuminen (the destruction, the act
Etymology traces tuh-out- and the -ua suffix pattern to Finnish verb formation, with tuhota meaning “to destroy”