"En viktig fråga."

Translation: An important question.

[bmb1988]

Eine wichtige Frage.

[yovalshamir]

I just love the similarity between the two language.

[GaelicGirl2]

Gewichtig in dutch. Not 100% sure you can say weighty in english though haha

[kwonnnn]

I like the similarity of this sentence to its German translation.

[SrMarien]

Does viktig have something to do with weight etymologically?

[Hrafnunga]

viktig/wichtig = weighty (in a figurative sense, i.e. important - "a weighty matter"). Wiktionary gives the etymology as literally vikt (weight) + ig (makes it an adjective).

[DogePamyuPamyu]

wichtig... das Gewicht... maybe so! :)

[friswing]

Yes, it must. weight = vikt. A phrase meaning that something is important is also: "Denna fråga är av stor vikt". ÄR AV STOR VIKT (Be of great weight)

[the_daymo]

Japp, Swedish is a Germanic language in origin and therefore has many cognates and similarities.

[4oYBIxtO]

Some Swedish and German words share the same origin. Some Swedish words are borrowed from German.

[LogiaPKB]

En viktig fråga..~

[Isaac_Luna_]

Et vigtigt spørgsmål... At være tysk eller ikke at være tysk?

[J.C.M.H.]

Spørgsmål is a native Nordic word, while fråga is a loanword of Low German.

[hundage]

is this meant to be "viktigt"? I thought that adjectives lost the "t" on the end only if it was about a person. ie "en viktig man", but "en viktigt dag"

or am I completely wrong on this one? Would love some help :)

[Arnauti]

The adjective is chosen according to gender. It's en fråga, so we get this form. For ett nouns, the adjective gets the -t ending. Ett viktigt svar is 'an important answer'.
So it's en viktig man but also en viktig dag because both of these are en words.

[hundage]

gotcha, that makes sense, tack for hjalpen!!

[ambl97]

A loan word from the German 'wichtig'?

[GaelicGirl2]

I would say no. They have similar roots and evolved together. If it is a loanword it would ve come into the language much later.
It is a germanice language, like other scandinavian languages and dutch german and english. So there will be many similarities

[Hrafnunga]

Yes, more or less. It was borrowed from Middle Low German wichtich, the spelling of which was later changed to wichtig.

[epichx93]

From my German experience viktig sounds like important or funny to me.

[katt64]

Why can't I say "a vital question" here?

[JoakimEk]

Vital is "stronger" than important. "En avgörande fråga"

[CedSgm7N]

Does 'fraga' mean both 'question' and 'answer'

[friswing]

No, answer = 'svar'