What 生きていけたら means here?


So I was listening to this song and practing a bit while doing so. When trying
to translate this line the results I got so far were:

> そう信じてこれから生きていけたらどれだけ素敵なんだろう
>
> _**So believe me/it, from now on ... how wonderful it is, right?**_

My problem here is with:

> 生きていけたら it feels like it is the te form of 生きる + the pothential form and
> conditional form of some verb which I don't know.

Could it be something like 行けたら? But since it is along with the te form of
another verb it is in hiragana instead of kanji.

Thanks in Advance, if any other points in my sentence or logic are wrong,
please help me.




You're right - it's the て form of 生きる、生きて, plus いく, "go", in its potential
form いける plus the conditional suffix たら . 生きていく means "live into the future",
"go on with my life". So そう信じてこれから生きていけたら means "If I could go on with my life
from now on believing that (how wonderful it would be)". くる , "come" and いく ,
"go", are often used after the て form of a verb (but not nowadays written with
kanji because they are auxiliaries, not full verbs) to indicate that an action
proceeds towards or away from the location of the speaker - in space or time.
When it's space it's straightforward: 入っていった , "he went in" (speaker is
outside) vs 入ってきた, "he came in" (speaker is inside); 帰っていった "she went home"
(after our date: boyfriend is speaking) vs 帰ってきた "she came home" (after her
date: mother is speaking). When it's a matter of time, it's perhaps not quite
so obvious. Consider: 19世紀の半ばごろから発達してきている "It has been developing since about
the mid-19th century" [from the past towards the present moment] vs
これから早く発達していくだろう "It will probably proceed to develop quickly from now on"
[away from the present moment]".




You're right - it's the て form of 生きる、生きて, plus いく, "go", in its potential
form いける plus the conditional suffix たら . 生きていく means "live into the future",
"go on with my life". So そう信じてこれから生きていけたら means "If I could go on with my life
from now on believing that (how wonderful it would be)". くる , "come" and いく ,
"go", are often used after the て form of a verb (but not nowadays written with
kanji because they are auxiliaries, not full verbs) to indicate that an action
proceeds towards or away from the location of the speaker - in space or time.
When it's space it's straightforward: 入っていった , "he went in" (speaker is
outside) vs 入ってきた, "he came in" (speaker is inside); 帰っていった "she went home"
(after our date: boyfriend is speaking) vs 帰ってきた "she came home" (after her
date: mother is speaking). When it's a matter of time, it's perhaps not quite
so obvious. Consider: 19世紀の半ばごろから発達してきている "It has been developing since about
the mid-19th century" [from the past towards the present moment] vs
これから早く発達していくだろう "It will probably proceed to develop quickly from now on"
[away from the present moment]".

