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I know the sentence means something like "This suddenly came out of the
sky...".

"これが" means "this is" (side question: why add "が" instead of just keeping it
as "これ"?)

"突然空" means "suddenly" and "sky"

"から" means "from"

But I'm not sure what "ふってきて" means. Is it a variation of "ふる"?, if so, why
alter it?
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verbs て-form particle-が subsidiary-verbs
What does "ふってきて mean in the sentence "これが、突然空からふってきて..."?
降って【ふって】きて is the te-form of 降る followed by [the subsidiary verb
(-て)くる](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/676/5010) in its te-form. くる as a
subsidiary verb is very common in Japanese, so you have to get used to it.

  * 降る: "to fall; to move down"
  * 降って: te-form of 降る
  * 降ってくる: "to fall (toward me); to come down"
  * 降ってきて: te-form of 降ってくる "to fall (toward me) (and...)"

が is not "is" but a generic subject marker. が is used simply because これ is the
subject of the sentence.
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