"The efficiency is high."

Translation: Effektiviteten är hög.

[Sjodni]

This word is impossible to spell!!!!

[ha.chun]

One way is to remember is to break it down into the parts that make up the derivation. It is based on the word "effektiv", "-itet" is a common way to make nouns out of (especially Latin-based) words.

[Ezra746950]

Hög doesn't take the definite ending -a because it follows the definite noun. But, den höga effektiviteten. ?

[devalanteriel]

Yes.

[NataliaMor932485]

Why not ...är stor...high means large or great ?

[Marisja7]

In Dutch we make a difference between effectiviteit (how big is the effect?) and efficiency (is, regarding to the input, the effect quite big?). Is the Swedish "Effektivitet" used for both?

[devalanteriel]

Yes, it is, and for that reason effekt is one of those words Swedes very frequently get wrong when translating into English.

[larsvdm]

Mmh, it is striking that effektivitet is en 'en' word and e.g. universitet is an 'ett' word, so apparently words with -et ending can be neuter or non-neuter.

[devalanteriel]

Yup. In this case they've been borrowed from different source languages, so I imagine that's the reason.