"Who answers such a question?"
Translation:Vem svarar på en sådan fråga?
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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.
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.
Svarar meaning answer or maybe reply, but sort of like we say "I respond TO a question" "I respond TO her." So though 'Svarar can mean answer' it works like respond does. In a way.. Besvarar - Jag besvarar frågan. I answer the question. No need for 'to' or 'på'. Like we say "I answer a question". "I answer her." ... Sort of
Basically, it is "such a" in English and "a such" in Swedish:
en sådan fråga
ett sådant djur
flera sådana frågor/djur
Wondering why en comes before sådan fråga or ett comes before sådant djur?
Sådan is just like any other adjective and goes between the noun and the article.
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?
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'.
sån is the short/slang form of sådan from what I understand. Native speakers, please correct me if I am wrong.
You are absolutely right! Sån (sådan), sånt (sådant) and såna (sådana) are very common. Note that the short forms all have a short "å".
A short "å"? I didn't know there was such a thing. I have enough trouble figuring out the normal "å". :D
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Hejsan comes from heißa? That is so interesting! Do you know where can I find more ethymological data about that?
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.
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.
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.
