Breakdown of Riippuuko työlupa siitä, että tulet työskentelemään?
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
tulla
to come
että
that (conjunction)
työskennellä
to work
riippua
to depend
työlupa
work permit
Questions & Answers about Riippuuko työlupa siitä, että tulet työskentelemään?
Why is siitä used right before että?
The verb riippua (to depend) always requires the thing you depend on to be in the elative case (ending in -sta or -stä). Because you cannot attach a case ending to an entire että (that) clause, we use a pronoun bridge. We put the pronoun se (it) into the required elative case (siitä) to satisfy the verb's rule, and then explain what "it" is with the että clause.
Does tulet työskentelemään mean physically arriving at a location to work?
Not necessarily. While it literally translates to "you come to work", using the verb tulla (to come) followed by the -maan/-mään form of a second verb is a very common way to express the future tense in Finnish. Here it simply means "you will work" or "you are going to work".
How is työskentelemään formed from its dictionary form?
The dictionary form is työskennellä (to work). Because it requires the MA-infinitive illative form after the verb tulla, we first need its strong vowel stem, which is työskentele-. Then we add the -mään ending, resulting in työskentelemään.
Why does the sentence start with riippuuko instead of työlupa?
In Finnish, a yes/no question is formed by attaching the question particle -ko or -kö to the specific word you are asking about, and moving that word to the very front. The core of this question is whether the permit depends on something, so the verb riippuu takes the particle and moves to the beginning.
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