Мы сможем пережить эту трудную ситуацию благодаря поддержке друзей.

Сможем is the 1st person plural future form of смочь.

So мы сможем means we will be able to or we will manage to.

It is a very common way to talk about future ability in Russian.

Russian often uses смочь when talking about being able to do something successfully in the future.

• мочь = to be able, to be capable
• смочь = to manage to, to succeed in being able to

So:

• Мы можем пережить... = We can get through... / We are able to get through...
• Мы сможем пережить... = We will be able to get through...

For future ability, смочь is usually the most natural choice.

Here пережить means to get through, to live through, or to survive a difficult experience.

So пережить ситуацию is literally something like to live through a situation.

In this sentence, it does not mean to outlive someone, although пережить can also have that meaning in other contexts.

Yes. They are related, and that often confuses learners.

• пережить can mean to get through / survive / live through
• переживать can be:
  • the imperfective partner of пережить
  • or to worry, depending on context

For example:

• пережить трудности = to get through difficulties
• переживать из-за экзамена = to worry about the exam

So the meaning depends on the structure and context.

Because the sentence talks about getting through the situation as a complete result.

Пережить is perfective, so it presents the action as a whole:
to make it through the situation.

If you used переживать, it would sound more like an ongoing process, repeated action, or a less result-focused view.

After сможем, a perfective infinitive is very natural when the speaker means successfully complete the action.

Because it is the direct object of пережить, so it goes in the accusative case.

The base form is:

• эта трудная ситуация

In the accusative singular feminine, it becomes:

• эту трудную ситуацию

So the changes are:

• эта → эту
• трудная → трудную
• ситуация → ситуацию

This is a very standard accusative pattern for feminine singular nouns and their modifiers.

Because пережить takes a direct object without a preposition.

In English, we often say get through a situation, where through is needed. Russian expresses that idea differently:

• пережить что? = to get through what?
• пережить ситуацию = to get through a situation

So Russian uses a verb + accusative object here, not a verb + preposition.

Because благодаря governs the dative case.

So:

• поддержка = support
• благодаря поддержке = thanks to support / thanks to the support

This is something you mostly just have to memorize:

• благодаря + dative

Examples:

• благодаря тебе = thanks to you
• благодаря друзьям = thanks to friends
• благодаря поддержке = thanks to support

Because друзей is genitive plural, and here it means of friends.

Russian often uses:

• noun + genitive noun

to express relationships like the support of friends, the advice of a teacher, the roof of the house, etc.

So:

• поддержка друзей = friends’ support / the support of friends

In the sentence, this whole phrase becomes part of благодаря поддержке друзей.

Yes, it could.

Russian often leaves out subject pronouns when the verb form already makes the subject clear. Since сможем already means we will be able, you can say:

• Сможем пережить эту трудную ситуацию...

and it is still grammatical.

Adding мы can make the subject clearer, more explicit, or slightly more emphatic.

Yes. Russian word order is fairly flexible.

This sentence could also be said as:

• Благодаря поддержке друзей мы сможем пережить эту трудную ситуацию.

That version puts more emphasis on thanks to the support of friends.

The original order is perfectly natural too. In Russian, word order often changes the focus or emphasis, not the basic meaning.

Because Russian has no articles.

English needs words like a and the, but Russian usually shows definiteness through context, word order, or words like этот.

In this sentence, эту already means this, so the noun is clearly specific:

• эту трудную ситуацию = this difficult situation

So Russian does not need a separate word for the.