Breakdown of Maratonhan on pitkä, mutta selviämme kuitenkin.
olla
to be
mutta
but
pitkä
long, tall
kuitenkin
however
Questions & Answers about Maratonhan on pitkä, mutta selviämme kuitenkin.
Could we use silti instead of kuitenkin in this sentence?
Yes, you absolutely could. Both kuitenkin (however / anyway) and silti (nevertheless) express contrast and work perfectly here. Saying mutta selviämme silti would mean almost exactly the same thing.
Why do we use both mutta (but) and kuitenkin (however/anyway) in the same clause?
While it might feel repetitive in English to say 'but we will survive however', combining a conjunction like mutta with an adverbial connector like kuitenkin or silti is very natural in Finnish. Mutta links the two clauses together, while kuitenkin strongly emphasizes the contrast.
What does the -han attached to Maratonhan do?
The -han (or -hän) is a suffix that adds the feeling of 'you know' or 'as we all know'. The speaker is using it to acknowledge a shared fact: we both already know that a marathon is a very long run.
What is the dictionary form of selviämme?