Questions & Answers about Se on pudottanu meiän läppärin.
Why is the word for "dropped" written as pudottanu instead of pudottanut?
In spoken Finnish (puhekieli), the final -t of the past participle is usually dropped. So the standard pudottanut simply becomes pudottanu.
I learned that "our" is meidän. Why is it spelled meiän here?
This is a classic example of dropping the d from the middle of a word in spoken Finnish. The standard form is meidän, but in everyday speech, the d disappears, making it meiän.
Why does the sentence start with Se if the translation says "He"?
In standard written Finnish (kirjakieli), hän means "he" or "she" and se means "it". However, in spoken Finnish, people almost universally use se to refer to other people.
What is the base form of läppärin and why does it have an -n at the end?
The base word is läppäri, which is a common spoken-language word for a laptop. It has an -n ending because it is the total object of the sentence. Since the action of dropping affected the entire laptop, it takes the accusative case, which looks identical to the genitive case here.