Word
Uskotko sinä, että se on totuus?
Meaning
Do you believe that it is the truth?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Uskotko sinä, että se on totuus?
olla
to be
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
sinä
you
että
that (conjunction)
Questions & Answers about Uskotko sinä, että se on totuus?
Why is there a comma before että?
In English, we often drop the word 'that' and don't use a comma. In Finnish, the conjunction että is required to connect these two parts of the sentence, and Finnish punctuation rules state that you must almost always put a comma right before an että subordinate clause.
Why include sinä when uskotko already means 'do you believe'?
You are right that uskotko already contains 'you' because of the -t ending. Adding the pronoun sinä is optional. Here, it adds a bit of emphasis, as if asking 'Do you believe that...' compared to what someone else might think.
Why doesn't the second part of the sentence (se on totuus) have a -ko question ending?
The first word, Uskotko, already makes the entire sentence a question. The clause after että just states the idea that is being asked about, so it stays in a normal statement format without any question words or particles.
Does the word totuus (truth) come from the word tosi (true)?
Yes! Totuus is a noun meaning 'the truth'. It is built from the adjective tosi (true). The -uus ending is a very common way in Finnish to turn an adjective into a noun, similar to adding '-ness' or '-th' in English.