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Tra un mese saprai tutta la verità.

Tra un mese saprai tutta la verità.
In a month you will know the whole truth.
From Lesson 113:Future tense of stem-dropping verbs (andrò, vedrò)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Tra un mese saprai tutta la verità.

Why is the verb saprai and not "saperai"?
Saprai is the "you" (singular) future tense form of sapere (to know). Sapere is an irregular verb in the future tense: instead of keeping its full stem and adding the regular ending (which would be "saperai"), it drops the -e-, making the stem sapr-. Then you just add the regular future ending -ai.
Why does tra mean "in" here? I thought it meant "between".
You are right that tra (and its twin word fra) usually means "between" or "among" for physical locations. However, when used with a duration of time like un mese, it translates to "in" (meaning a certain amount of time from now). So tra un mese means "in a month".
Why do we need the article la in tutta la verità?
In Italian, when you use tutto or tutta to mean "all of the" or "the whole", it must always be followed by a definite article. While English can say "the whole truth", Italian literally says "all the truth" (tutta la verità).
How do I know if verità is masculine or feminine since it ends in an accented -à?
Almost all Italian abstract nouns ending in an accented -tà (like verità, città, difficoltà) are feminine. They are also invariable, meaning their spelling does not change in the plural, so "the truths" would just be le verità.

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