"Деньги не главное."

Translation: Money is not the important thing.

[lyranovus]

важное is important, while главное is the main thing. Am I right here? please comment.

[Hating_Mirror]

Absolutly right, I'm Russian

[TheFinkie]

So it should perhaps be "the most important thing"?

[bleedingorange]

"Money is not the most important thing" was rejected.

[sp.ark]

Incorrect! "Main" is not equal "important". That is evidently.

Money is not main thing, but they are important.

[Saskia390132]

Money is not the main thing, but it is important.

[R_R1234]

As my grandfather used to say: "The important thing is the AMOUNT of money" XD

[Die_Lerche]

Yeah, i'd prefer crying in a ferrari than on a bike ... ;-)

[english851620]

Главное не деньги а их количество☺

[flootzavut]

Is it главное because it's referring to an implied это or am I just misremembering stuff again? I sort of expected it to be plural to go with деньги.

[olimo]

"Главное" here is sort of an adjective that became a noun. It means "important thing".

[deactivated user]

¨главное¨ is just and adjective that follows ¨ что-то¨ which is omitted but requires a neuter adjective;
деньги не (что-то) главное.

[flootzavut]

Ahh, okay, I get it :) спасибо!

[AaronDandr]

I translated "....AN important thing" instead of ".....THE important thing" and was marked wrong, what is the difference?

[PauletteSm]

I put money is not the important thing last time and it was corrected to money is not the most important thing. So this time i put it that way and it corrected me to my oruginal translation. Duo can have it both ways i suppose, and i am wrong no matter how i translate this sentence.

[tkkim5]

Я совершенно не согласен с ним.

[Johan214123]

That's a sentence I will never have to use.

[mcurko]

Would "деньги не главные" also be correct?

[DonaldYTKA]

Деньги не главное, a самое главное.