pudotettuja

Pudotettuja is a Finnish grammatical form used as a past passive participle in the plural partitive. It derives from the verb pudottaa, meaning to drop or let fall. The form functions like an adjective describing nouns, indicating that the objects have been dropped or let fall.

The base form pudotettu is the past passive participle, and adding the plural partitive ending yields pudotettuja. This form is typically attached to nouns in the partitive case, for example pudotettuja esineitä or pudotettuja kolikoita. The construction is common in descriptive or reportive Finnish, especially when enumerating, describing a scene, or reporting findings.

Usage and examples:

- Pudotettuja esineitä löytyi lattialta. (Dropped items were found on the floor.)

- Poliisi keräsi pudotettuja kolikoita kadunvarresta. (Police collected dropped coins from the roadside.)

- Monet pudotettuja hedelmiä makasivat pöydällä. (Many dropped fruits lay on the table.)

Notes:

- Pudotettuja is specifically partitive plural; other grammatical cases have corresponding forms (pudotetut in nominative plural, pudotettujen in genitive plural, etc.).

- The term is primarily used in written Finnish, such as news reports, inventories, and descriptive passages, but it can appear in everyday language when describing objects that have fallen or been dropped.

See also:

- Pudottaa, the verb meaning to drop or to let fall

- Past participles in Finnish grammar

- Partitive case in Finnish

Pudotettuja serves as a concise way to describe multiple objects that have undergone the action of being dropped, without naming the exact quantity or complete set.