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Ootko sä pudottanu kaks läppäriä?

Ootko sä pudottanu kaks läppäriä?
Have you dropped two laptops?
From Lesson 162:Spoken dropped sounds (-ny, yks)·Finnish

Breakdown of Ootko sä pudottanu kaks läppäriä?

olla
to be
sinä
you
kaksi
two
pudottaa
to drop
läppäri
the laptop

Questions & Answers about Ootko sä pudottanu kaks läppäriä?

How did oletko become ootko in this sentence?
In spoken Finnish (puhekieli), the verb olet (you are / you have) often shrinks to oot. When you add the question ending -ko, it becomes ootko instead of the formal written form, oletko.
Why is the word pudottanu missing a -t at the end?
In spoken Finnish, the final -t of the past participle (like pudottanut, meaning "dropped") is almost always left out. So pudottanut becomes pudottanu, tehnyt becomes tehny, and so on.
Is kaks just a shortened version of kaksi?
Exactly. Just like the missing -t in verbs, spoken Finnish often drops the final -i from the numbers yksi (one) and kaksi (two), turning them into yks and kaks.
Why is läppäriä in the partitive case (-ä) instead of just being plural?
In Finnish, any number greater than one requires the noun following it to be in the partitive singular. So, after kaks (two), you must use the partitive form läppäriä rather than a standard plural.

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