"Who answers such a question?"

Translation: Vem svarar på en sådan fråga?

[daadaadaaren]

what is the diff btw svarar and besvarar

[Arnauti]

besvarar can only be used with en fråga or similar, not with persons. Svarar needs the preposition på to say you are answering a question, but you can use it with people without a preposition: jag svarar honom - 'I answer him', jag svarar på frågan, jag besvarar frågan.

[Namor_Votilav]

Duo suggests bara "svarar" and never "besvarar"

[Arnauti]

Vem besvarar en sådan fråga? is an accepted version. Duo will suggest whatever it 'thinks' is closest to what you input, so if you'd input something that it close to, but not exactly that, it should suggest that.

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

Thank you for that. :)

[CommieGnome]

Can someone explain the structure of sentences with sådan in?

[HelenCarlsson]

Basically, it is "such a" in English and "a such" in Swedish:

en sådan fråga
ett sådant djur
flera sådana frågor/djur

[SvenskaElev]

Wondering why en comes before sådan fråga or ett comes before sådant djur?

[jarrettph]

Sådan is just like any other adjective and goes between the noun and the article.

[NatalieBoa3]

Thanks for that.

[NatalieBoa3]

In English we would still say the last phrase in that order: "several such questions". I wonder why the word order is reversed in the other two instances in English.
In Swedish it just seems to act in the normal position of an adjective.
What do you think is going on in English?

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

What is the difference between sådan and sån?

[jarrettph]

sån is the short/slang form of sådan from what I understand. Native speakers, please correct me if I am wrong.

[HelenCarlsson]

You are absolutely right! Sån (sådan), sånt (sådant) and såna (sådana) are very common. Note that the short forms all have a short "å".

[jarrettph]

A short "å"? I didn't know there was such a thing. I have enough trouble figuring out the normal "å". :D

[CruiseCont]

is it the same word as in hej sån?

[HelenCarlsson]

No, that's "hejsan" with an "a" :).

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

hejsan is a different, unrelated word. It comes from German heißa.

[nixolakin1]

Hejsan comes from heißa? That is so interesting! Do you know where can I find more ethymological data about that?

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

Ahh, makes sense :)

[wenwenoc]

Why is på used here

[Arnauti]

svarar with an object is only used with indirect objects, e.g. Han svarade henne 'He answered her', but for answering questions, it needs the preposition 'på': Han svarade på hennes fråga 'He answered her question'.

[GaryAxelson]

Very helpful. Thanks

[nixolakin1]

Why not "Vem svarar på sådan fråga?"?

[Nixolakin2]

Vilken fråga!

[jarrettph]

Can you add besvarar to the drop down hint?

[Arnauti]

I'd rather not, because then it will show up everywhere, and we'll get a lot of answers like 'Pojken besvarar flickan' in the first lesson where answers appears. I tried adding a multi-part hint to answers … a question now, let's see how that works out.

[jarrettph]

Åk ok, tack.

[Trilby16]

So why was my answer corrected to besvarar? (see above!)

[NatalieBoa3]

I think maybe because you didn't use på. That is my guess.

[NatalieBoa3]

I.e. because besvarar does not use på (at least in this case. I think it always implies answering in reference to a question but I may have gotten that wrong) and svarar always needs to take på when referencing answering a question. Whereas svarar without på can be still be used to mean answering, but not specifically to "en fråga" in the sentence.
Han svarar på en fråga.
Hon besvarar en fråga.
De svarar varandra.
NOT Hon svarar en fråga.

[NatalieBoa3]

Ah! That is basically what Arnauti said above. I could not see his comment while I was typing.
Maybe if I had a desktop computer I would still be able to read the other comments whilst responding to yours.

[BBroxi]

Ok but why?

[emma936924]

Why is på in this sentence, I don't get the need for it here?