Ez a készség is fontos.

In Hungarian, when this or that comes directly before a noun, you normally use:

demonstrative + definite article + noun

So:

• ez a készség = this skill
• az a könyv = that book

Using just ez by itself is normal only when the noun is omitted and ez stands alone as this.

Hungarian has two forms of the definite article:

• a before a consonant sound
• az before a vowel sound

Since készség begins with k, a consonant, the correct form is a:

• ez a készség

Compare:

• ez az ötlet = this idea

because ötlet starts with a vowel.

Because this sentence is using ez a készség as the subject of the sentence.

• ez = nominative form (this)
• ezt = accusative form (this as a direct object)

Here the sentence means this skill ... is important, so this skill is the subject, not the object.

For comparison:

• Ez a készség fontos. = This skill is important.
• Ezt a készséget fejlesztem. = I am developing this skill.

In the second sentence, ezt a készséget is the object, so it takes accusative marking.

Here is means also, too, or as well.

So Ez a készség is fontos means that this skill is important in addition to something else already mentioned or understood.

This is a very common Hungarian word, but it is not the same as English is.

Because Hungarian is usually comes right after the word or phrase it belongs to.

Here it attaches to ez a készség, especially to the noun phrase ending in készség, so the meaning is:

this skill too / this skill also

Compare:

• Ez a készség is fontos. = This skill is also important.
• Ez is fontos. = This is also important.

The position of is shows what is being added.

In Hungarian, the verb to be is usually omitted in the present tense, third person when the predicate is a noun or adjective.

So Hungarian says, literally:

• Ez a készség fontos. = This skill important.

But in natural English, of course, you translate it with is.

You do see the verb in other tenses or persons, for example:

• Ez a készség fontos volt. = This skill was important.
• Fontos vagy. = You are important.

So the missing is is completely normal here.

Because in this sentence fontos is not directly modifying the noun. It is acting as the predicate adjective: is important.

Compare the two patterns:

• fontos készség = an important skill
  
  • here fontos directly describes the noun
• Ez a készség fontos. = This skill is important
  
  • here fontos is the main statement about the subject

So the position changes depending on whether the adjective is inside the noun phrase or is the predicate of the sentence.

Yes. Hungarian word order is flexible, and different orders can change the focus or emphasis.

The sentence Ez a készség is fontos is a normal, neutral way to say it.

You may also see other orders in context, for example:

• Fontos ez a készség is.

This can sound more contrastive or emphatic, something like This skill, too, is important.

What usually stays true is that is follows the element it belongs to. So:

• Ez is fontos. = This is important too.
• Ez a készség is fontos. = This skill is important too.

But Ez a készség fontos is is not the normal way to express this meaning.

No. Hungarian has no grammatical gender, so there is no masculine/feminine distinction like important for he/she/it.

That means:

• fontos stays fontos
• ez does not mean specifically he, she, or it
• nothing in this sentence tells you gender

This is one reason Hungarian can feel simpler than many European languages in this area.

Not in the way English speakers may expect from languages like French, German, or Spanish.

Hungarian adjectives do not change for gender, and attributive adjectives usually do not change for number either.

In this sentence, fontos is singular because the subject is singular:

• Ez a készség fontos.

If the subject were plural and fontos were used predicatively, you would usually make it plural:

• Ezek a készségek fontosak. = These skills are important.

So agreement is much more limited than in many Indo-European languages.

A few important points:

• é is a long vowel
• sz sounds like English s
• s by itself sounds like English sh

So Hungarian spelling works very differently from English spelling.

The word készség contains both sz and s, which can make it look confusing at first. The main thing to remember is:

• sz = s
• s = sh

Also, the accent on é matters: vowel length is meaningful in Hungarian, not just decorative spelling.