kadottivat
Kadottivat is a Finnish verb form meaning “they lost” or “they misplaced (something).” It is the third-person plural past tense (indikatiivin imperfekti) of the verb kadottaa, which conveys the act of losing or misplacing an item. The form is used when the subject of the sentence is plural and the action occurred in the past.
In usage, kadottivat is transitive and typically takes a definite object in a possessive or genitive form,
Grammatically, kadottivat is built from the stem kadott- plus the past tense plural ending -ivat, which follows
Etymology and related forms: kadottaa is the base verb meaning “to lose” or “to cause to lose”