pudotetun

Pudotetun is the genitive singular form of the Finnish past passive participle pudotettu, which means “dropped” or “fallen.” The participle is derived from the verb pudottaa, meaning to drop or to cause to fall. In Finnish, participles function as adjectives and can modify a noun in a way that agrees with the noun’s case and number. Pudotetun is used when the participial phrase appears inside a genitive noun phrase, typically to indicate possession or a descriptive relation.

In practice, pudotetun is most commonly seen in phrases like pudotetun laatikon kansi, meaning “the lid of the dropped box.” Here pudotetun participates in a genitive construction that governs laatikon, while kansi remains the head noun. The form demonstrates how Finnish adjectives and participles decline to align with the surrounding grammar, as other forms of the same participle would appear in different cases or numbers (for example, pudotettua in partitive, pudotettu in nominative, and pudotettujen in plural genitive).

Usage notes: Pudotetun, like other participial adjectives, does not create a separate lexical item; it is a grammatical form used to describe nouns that have undergone the action described by pudottaa. Its presence signals a past passive relation and typically occurs in written and formal Finnish, though it also appears in everyday language when precise descriptive detail is required.

See also: Finnish grammar, past passive participles, pudottaa (to drop).