Questions & Answers about Они точно решат проблему.
Wait, решат has a present-tense ending. Why does it mean "will solve" in the future?
Great catch! решат comes from the perfective verb решить (to solve). Because perfective verbs focus on the result or completion of an action, they cannot describe an ongoing process happening right now in the present. When you attach standard present-tense endings to a perfective verb, it automatically creates the simple future tense.
Why does решить take an -ат ending here instead of -ят?
решить is a regular "second conjugation" verb (verbs ending in -ить). For the Они (They) form, these verbs usually take a -ят ending. However, a strict Russian spelling rule states that you can never write the letter я after ш. You must use а instead, which gives us решат.
Why does the dictionary word проблема change to проблему here?
Because the problem is the direct object of the sentence—it is the thing being acted upon or solved. This means it needs to be in the accusative case. For feminine nouns that end in -а, the ending changes to -у in the accusative case.
I learned that точно means "exactly". Does it mean something different in this sentence?
Yes! While точно does mean "exactly" (like in "exactly at 5 o'clock"), in everyday Russian it is very frequently used to mean "definitely" or "for sure". So точно решат translates perfectly to "will definitely solve".
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