Breakdown of Uskotko sinä, että se on totuus?
olla
to be
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
sinä
you
että
that (conjunction)
uskoa
to believe
totuus
truth
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.
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