Breakdown of A pénzügyi támogatás fontos.
Questions & Answers about A pénzügyi támogatás fontos.
Because Hungarian usually leaves out the verb to be in the present tense, third person, when one noun or adjective is linked to another.
So:
A pénzügyi támogatás fontos. = Financial support is important.
But in other tenses, or in first/second person, the verb appears:
A pénzügyi támogatás fontos volt. = Financial support was important.
Fontos vagyok. = I am important.
This missing is is one of the most common things English speakers notice in Hungarian.
A is the definite article, like the.
Hungarian often uses the definite article in places where English would use no article, especially when the noun phrase is the topic of the sentence or when the speaker is talking about a general concept as a known category.
So A pénzügyi támogatás fontos is a normal Hungarian sentence, even though natural English usually says Financial support is important, not The financial support is important.
Also, a is used before consonant sounds. Before vowel sounds, Hungarian uses az.