Breakdown of Olen varma siitä, että seuraava korotus tehdään hienovaraisesti.
olla
to be
se
it / he / she (of a person) / that
varma
sure / certain
tehdä
to do
Questions & Answers about Olen varma siitä, että seuraava korotus tehdään hienovaraisesti.
Why do we need the word siitä before että?
The adjective varma (sure) requires its complement to be in the elative case (-sta/-stä). Since you cannot attach a case ending directly to an että clause, Finnish uses the pronoun se in the elative (siitä) as a grammatical bridge. Literally, it means I am sure about it, that...
The current lesson is about inversion in reported speech. Why isn't there any inversion here?
Subject-verb inversion generally only happens when a reporting clause comes strictly after a direct quotation (for example: ..., sanoi hän). This sentence uses an että clause for indirect speech instead, so it follows the standard word order where the subject (seuraava korotus) comes before the verb (tehdään).
Why is tehdään translated as future tense (will be made) if it is a present tense form?
How is the adverb hienovaraisesti built from its root adjective?