I came across the sentence

> 入って{はいって}いいのかな

and I wasn't able to translate it into English.

If I'm not mistaken the first Kanji is read as "Hai" annd this should mean
"enter" right ? Then it goes on with "tsute" which is supposed to mean
something like "if". "ii" means "good" so and "no" indicates a question. The
last two hiragana should mean "I wonder" or "Wonder" but if I put all of this
into one sentence I would come to "I wonder if it will be good if I enter".
But somehow that makes no sense to me.

It would be nice if someone could explain it to me.
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translation expressions て-form
How to translate 入っていいのかな?
～て(も)いい is a fixed pattern to say "it's okay if ..." or ask (in a question)
"is it okay if ...", which derives from the more general ～ても "even if", so
that we have something like

> ～て(も)いい  
>  it's okay if ...  
>  _lit._ even if ... it's good.

In your example

> 入って(も)いいかな  
>  I wonder if it's okay if [I] enter

Considering that you don't know how to conjugate verbs, your guess was pretty
good. Reading <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_verb_conjugation> you
will learn that って is the _okurigana_ for the _te_ -form of 入る "to enter",
i.e. 入って is a conjugation of the verb 入る.
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