Learn Swedish: Uthållighet och kondition är viktigt, oavsett hur fort du springer. - Endurance and fitness are important, regardless of how fast you run.

Here, oavsett acts as a conjunction introducing an indirect question (hur fort du springer). Just like "regardless of" in English, it tells us that the main statement remains true no matter what the answer to that indirect question happens to be.

Why is the word order du springer instead of springer du?

Because hur fort du springer is an indirect question, which functions as a subordinate clause. In Swedish subordinate clauses, the subject (du) must come before the verb (springer). If it were a standalone direct question, the verb would come first: Hur fort springer du?

Uthållighet and kondition are both en-words, and there are two of them. Why is the adjective viktigt in the neuter singular form rather than the plural viktiga?

This is a special Swedish rule for abstract concepts and uncountable nouns. Even though there are two nouns here, they are being discussed together as a broad, general phenomenon. When making a general statement about an activity or an abstract idea, Swedish defaults to the neuter singular (ett-form) for the adjective, which is why we see viktigt.

Is kondition a false friend for the English word "condition"?