Avainsana-arkisto: past tense

pudota (putosi)

putosi

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MEANING:

Verb: to slip, to fall down, to fall off, to burst out laughing.

(Additional meanings, so check the sanakirja.org entry for more.)

Pudota appears in our example photo caption in the 3rd person singular past form, putosi.

EXTRA CREDIT:

Let’s translate the photo caption, ”Vene putosi tielle,” or ”A boat fell onto the road.”

Vene is in the nominative singular and means ”boat.”

Tielle is is allative singular of tie, meaning ”road.” The allative case is here used to mean ”onto the road.”