Word
Kuva jäätyi, joten käynnistän läppärin uudelleen.
Meaning
The picture froze, so I am restarting the laptop.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Kuva jäätyi, joten käynnistän läppärin uudelleen.
kuva
picture
joten
so, therefore
läppäri
the laptop
jäätyä
to freeze
Questions & Answers about Kuva jäätyi, joten käynnistän läppärin uudelleen.
How does joten work here, and is it interchangeable with siksi?
Joten means "so" or "therefore" and introduces a consequence clause. While you could split this into two sentences and use siksi ("The picture froze. That is why I am restarting..."), joten neatly joins them into a single sentence as a relative conjunction.
Why are käynnistän and uudelleen separated by the word for laptop?
The concept of "to restart" is made of the verb käynnistää (to start) and the adverb uudelleen (again). In Finnish, the direct object (läppärin) usually comes right after the verb, pushing the adverb to the end of the clause.
Why is läppäri (laptop) written here with the -n ending as läppärin?
It is the total object of the sentence. Because you are performing a complete action on the entire laptop (restarting it), the object takes the accusative -n ending.
I've also seen the verb jäädyttää for "to freeze". Why is it jäätyi here?