important

See also: împortant

English

Etymology

From Middle English important, from Medieval Latin importānt-, importāns.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔːtənt/, [ɪmˈpʰɔːʔn̩t]
• (General American) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔɹtənt/, [ɪmˈpʰɔɹʔn̩t]
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpo(ː)ɹtənt/, [ɪmˈpʰo(ː)ɹtn̩t], [ɪmˈpʰɔɹʔɪ̃nt̚]
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpo.tənt/, [ɪmˈpʰoətn̩t]
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Adjective

important (comparative more important, superlative most important)

1. Having relevant and crucial value.

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

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     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.

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Synonyms

• significant
• weighty
• See also Thesaurus:important

Antonyms

• negligible
• ignorable
• petty
• slight
• unimportant

Derived terms

• importantly, importantness, unimportant, VIP

Related terms

• import
• importance

Translations

having relevant and crucial value

• Afrikaans: belangrik (af)
• Albanian: i rëndësishëm
• Arabic: مُهِمّ (muhimm)
• Aragonese: important
• Aramaic: חסינא m (ħasīna)
• Armenian: կարեւոր (karewor)
• Asturian: importante
• Azerbaijani: mühüm (az), vacib (az)
• Balinese: please add this translation if you can
• Bashkir: мөһим (möhim)
• Basque: garrantzitsu
• Belarusian: ва́жны (vážny)
• Bengali: গুরুত্বপূর্ণ (guruttopurno)
• Bulgarian: ва́жен (bg) (vážen)
• Burmese: အရေးကြီး (my) (a.re:kri:)
• Catalan: important (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 緊要／紧要 (gan² jiu³), 紧要 (gan² jiu³)

  Mandarin: 重要 (zh) (zhòngyào)

• Czech: důležitý (cs) m
• Danish: vigtig (da)
• Dutch: belangrijk (nl)
• Egyptian: (wr)
• Esperanto: grava (eo)
• Estonian: tähtis (et), oluline (et)
• Extremaduran: emportanti
• Faroese: umráðandi
• Finnish: tärkeä (fi)
• French: important (fr)
• Galician: importante (gl)
• Georgian: მნიშვნელოვანი (mnišvnelovani)
• German: wichtig (de)
• Greek: σημαντικός (el) m (simantikós)
• Haitian Creole: enpòtan
• Hebrew: חָשׁוּב (khashúv)
• Hindi: महत्वपूर्ण (mahatvapūrṇ), अहम (aham)
• Hungarian: fontos (hu)
• Icelandic: mikilvægur (is) m
• Ido: importanta (io)
• Indonesian: penting (id)
• Interlingua: importante
• Irish: tábhachtach, mórluachach
• Italian: importante (it)
• Japanese: 重要 (ja) (jūyō), 大切 (ja) (taisetsu)
• Kannada: ಮುಖ್ಯ (kn) (mukhya)
• Kazakh: маңызды (kk) (mañyzdy)
• Khmer: សំខាន់ (km) (somkən)
• Korean: 중요하다 (ko) (jung'yohada)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: маанилүү (ky) (maanilüü), олуттуу (oluttuu)
• Lao: ສຳຄັນ (sam khan)
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• Latin: gravis (la), magnus (la)
• Latvian: svarīgs, nozīmīgs
• Lithuanian: svarbus (lt)
• Luxembourgish: wichteg (lb)
• Macedonian: ва́жен (vážen)
• Malay: penting
• Malayalam: അതിപ്രധാനമായ (atipradhānamāya), മുഖ്യമായ (mukhyamāya), ഗൗരവമുള്ള (gauravamuḷḷa), ഉയർന്ന പദവിയിലുള്ള (uyaṟnna padaviyiluḷḷa)
• Maltese: importanti
• Maori: tiketike, matua, hira, mātuatua, pūwhero (of the rank of a person), pūwhewhero (of the rank of a person)
• Mirandese: amportante
• Mongolian: чухал (mn) (čuxal)
• Navajo: tsʼídá bíhólníihgo
• Nepali: महत्वपूर्ण (mahatvapūrṇa)
• Norman: împortant
• Norwegian: alvorlig (no), betydelig (no), viktig (no)
• Novial:
• Occitan: important (oc)
• Old English: hefig, mihtig, niedmicel, weorþlic
• Oriya: ଗୁରୁତ୍ବପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ (gurutbapūrṇṇa)
• Persian: مهم (fa) (mohemm)
• Polish: ważny (pl) m
• Portuguese: importante (pt)
• Punjabi: ਮਹੱਤਵਪੂਰਨ (mahatvapūran)
• Romanian: important (ro)
• Russian: ва́жный (ru) (vážnyj), зна́чимый (ru) (znáčimyj)
• Sanskrit: अत्यावश्यक (atyāvaśyaka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: важан

  Roman: važan (sh)

• Sinhalese: වැදගත් (wædagat)
• Slovak: dôležitý (sk)
• Slovene: pomémben
• Spanish: importante (es)
• Swahili: muhimu (sw)
• Swedish: viktig (sv), betydelsefull (sv)
• Tagalog: mahalagá
• Tajik: муҳим (muhim)
• Tamil: பாரதூரம் (ta) (pāratūram)
• Telugu: ముఖ్యమైన (te) (mukhyamaina)
• Thai: สำคัญ (th) (sǎm-kan), เอ้ (th) (ây)
• Tibetan: གལ་ཆེན་པོ (gal chen po)
• Turkish: önemli (tr), mühim (tr)
• Turkmen: dahylly, möhüm
• Ukrainian: важли́вий (uk) (važlývyj), значни́й (značnýj), важни́й (uk) (važnýj)
• Urdu: اہم (aham)
• Uzbek: muhim (uz)
• Vietnamese: quan trọng (vi)
• Volapük: veütik (vo)
• Walloon: impôrtant (wa) m, consecant (wa) m
• Welsh: pwysig (cy)
• West Frisian: wichtich
• Yiddish: וויכטיק (vikhtik)

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Catalan

Adjective

important m or f (masculine and feminine plural importants)

1. important

Derived terms

• importantment

Related terms

• importància

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/
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Adjective

important (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 number of the votes

Derived terms

• importance

Verb

important

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) present participle of importer

Further reading

• “important”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) important

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) third-person plural present active indicative of importō

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Romanian

Etymology

From French important.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): [im.porˈtant]

Adjective

important m or n (feminine singular importantă, masculine plural importanți, feminine and neuter plural importante)

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	importantilor