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Questions & Answers about Kyllä sinä pärjäät.
How does kyllä function in this sentence since it is not answering a question?
Here, kyllä acts as an epistemic adverb, which means it shows how certain the speaker is. It emphasizes the truth of the statement to offer strong reassurance, turning a simple 'you will do fine' into 'you will certainly do fine.'
Why is kyllä placed at the very beginning of the sentence?
Putting kyllä at the start of an affirmative clause is the standard way to assert that the entire statement is true. It immediately sets an emphatic and reassuring tone for the words that follow.
Why does the translation use the future tense 'will do fine' when pärjäät is in the present tense?
Finnish does not have a separate grammatical future tense, so the present tense is used to describe both present and future events. In this sentence, the pragmatic context of reassuring someone about an upcoming challenge makes it clear that we are talking about the future.
What is the infinitive form of pärjäät and how did it get that double ä?
The basic verb is pärjätä (to manage or do fine), which is a type 4 verb. To form the conjugation stem, you drop the final -tä and add a matching vowel based on vowel harmony, giving the stem pärjää-. Then you just add the singular 'you' ending -t.