"Did you answer me, if you gave the cat food?"

Translation: Svarede du mig på, om du gav katten mad?

[PatrickDaSilva]

What role does the på play here? Maybe a German explanation could help? I can't see the nuance.

[deactivated user]

"Hast du mir darauf geantwortet, ob du der Katze Essen gabst?"

[PatrickDaSilva]

Alles klar! Tak!

[adcoon]

As a native Dane, i find nothing wrong about leaving out the "på" here. It's probably not strictly correct according to the rules of grammar, but colloquially I doubt many will complain.