vaurioitu

Vaurioitu is a Finnish adjective meaning damaged or impaired, used to describe something that has sustained harm, malfunction, or deterioration. It can refer to physical objects, materials, equipment, buildings, or biological tissue that has been damaged.

The word is derived from the noun vaurio (damage) and functions as a state descriptor in Finnish grammar. It appears in predicative constructions, for example “Laite on vaurioitunut” (the device has become damaged), and in attributive phrases such as “vaurioituneet osat” (damaged parts). The more common participle form is vaurioitunut, which expresses the completed state of damage.

Vaurioitu is frequent in technical, industrial, medical, and everyday Finnish when discussing damage, deterioration, or malfunction. It can reflect varying degrees of harm, from minor faults to serious impairment, and is often used to describe both immediate damage and longer-term deterioration.

See also: vaurio (damage), vaurioituminen (deterioration or damage process), vauriokorjaus (damage repair).