important

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/, /ɪmˈpɔː.tn̩t/, X-SAMPA: /Im"pO:t@nt/, /Im"pO:tn=t/
• (US) IPA: /ɪmˈpɔɹtənt/, /ɪmˈpɔɹʔn̩t/, X-SAMPA: /Im"pOrt@nt/, /Im"pOrtn=t/

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

important (comparative more important, superlative most important)

1. Having relevant and crucial value.
   • 1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son:

     For this was the most important thing, that when a person felt strongly about an issue in life, it mustn’t be ignored by others; for if it was, everything subsequent to it would turn out badly, even though there should seem to be no direct connection.

   It is very important to give your daughter independence in her life so she learns from experience.

Synonyms

• weighty
• See also Wikisaurus:important

Related terms

• import, importance

Derived terms

• importantly, importantness, unimportant, VIP

Translations

having relevant and crucial value

• Afrikaans: belangrik (af)
• Albanian: i rëndësishëm (sq)
• Arabic: مهم (ar) (muhim)
• Aragonese: important (an)
• Aramaic: חסינא (ħasīna) m
• Armenian: կարեւոր (hy) (karewor) 
• Asturian: importante (ast)
• Balinese: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: garrantzitsu (eu)
• Bengali: গুরুত্বপূর্ণ (bn) (guruttopurno)
• Bulgarian: важен (bg) (važen) 
• Burmese: အရေးကြီး (my) (ăye:kyi:)
• Catalan: important (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重要 (cmn) (zhòngyào)

• Czech: důležitý (cs) m
• Danish: vigtig (da)
• Dutch: belangrijk (nl)
• Esperanto: grava (eo)
• Estonian: tähtis (et), oluline (et)
• Finnish: tärkeä (fi)
• French: important (fr)
• Galician: importante (gl)
• Georgian: მნიშვნელოვანი (ka) (mnišvnelovani) 
• German: wichtig (de)
• Haitian Creole: enpòtan
• Hebrew: חשוב (he) (khashúv)
• Hindi: महत्वपूर्ण (hi) (mahatvapūrṇ), अहम (hi) (aham)
• Hungarian: fontos (hu)
• Icelandic: mikilvægur (is) m
• Indonesian: penting (id)
• Interlingua: importante (ia)
• Irish: tábhachtach (ga), mórluachach (ga)
• Italian: importante (it)
• Japanese: 重要な (ja) (じゅうような, jūyō-na), 大切な (ja) (たいせつな, taisetsu-na)
• Jèrriais: împortant
• Kannada: ಮುಖ್ಯ (kn) (mukhya)
• Khmer: សំខាន់ (km) (somkən)
• Korean: 중요하다 (ko)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: گرنگ (ku) (gring)

• Lao: ສຳຄັນ (lo) (sam-khan)
• Latin: gravis (la), magnus (la)
• Latvian: svarīgs (lv), nozimīgs (lv)

• Lithuanian: svarbus (lt)
• Lojban: vajni (jbo)
• Luxembourgish: wichteg (lb)
• Macedonian: важен (mk) (vážen)
• Malay: penting (ms)
• Malayalam: അതിപ്രധാനമായ (ml), മുഖ്യമായ (ml), ഗൗരവമുള്ള (ml), ഉയര്‍ന്ന പദവിയിലുള്ള (ml)
• Maltese: importanti (mt)
• Maori: tiketike (mi), matua (mi), hira (mi)
• Mirandese: amportante
• Nepali: महत्वपूर्ण (ne)
• Norwegian: alvorlig (no), betydelig (no), viktig (no)
• Occitan: important (oc)
• Old English: hefig (ang)
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: مُهِمّ (fa) (mohem)
• Polish: ważny (pl) m
• Portuguese: importante (pt)
• Punjabi: ਮਹੱਤਵਪੂਰਨ (pa)
• Romanian: important (ro)
• Russian: важный (ru) (vážnyj) 
• Sanskrit: अत्यावश्यक (sa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: важан (sh)

  Roman: važan (sh)

• Slovene: pomémben (sl)
• Spanish: importante (es)
• Swahili: maarufu (sw)
• Swedish: viktig (sv), betydelsefull (sv)
• Tagalog: mahalagá (tl)
• Tamil: பாரதூரம் (ta) (paraturam)
• Telugu: ముఖ్యమైన (te) (mukhyamaina)
• Thai: สำคัญ (th) (săm-kan), เอ้ (th) (ây)
• Tibetan: གལ་ཆེན་པོ (bo) (gal chen po)
• Turkish: önemli (tr), mühim (tr)
• Ukrainian: важливий (uk) (važlývyj) , значний (uk) (značnýj) , важний (uk) (važnýj) 
• Urdu: اہم (ur) (aham)
• Vietnamese: quan trọng (vi)
• Volapük: veütik (vo)
• Welsh: pwysig (cy)
• West Frisian: wichtich (fy)
• Yiddish: וויכטיק (yi) (vikhtik)

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• Bengali: দরকারী (bn) (dorkārī)

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: glad · hair · ran · #572: important · mine · wild · front

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Catalan

Adjective

important m, f (masculine and feminine plural importants)

1. important

Derived terms

• importantment

Related terms

• importància

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French

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

• IPA: /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/

Adjective

important m (feminine importante, masculine plural importants, feminine plural importantes)

1. important

   Il est important de se brosser les dents.

   It is important to brush your teeth.

2. significant

   Une partie importante des votes

   A significant part of the votes.

Derived terms

• importance

Verb

important

1. Present participle of importer.

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Latin

Verb

important

1. third-person plural present active indicative of importō

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Romanian

Etymology

French important

Pronunciation

• IPA: [im.porˈtant]

Adjective

important ^{4 nom/acc forms}

1. important

Declension

declension of important

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	important		importantă	importanți	importante
	definite	importantul		importanta	importanții	importantele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	important		importante	importanți	importante
	definite	importantului		importantei	importanților	importantelor