principal

A2Rank #1197

main, most important

Part of speech
adjective
Frequency rank
#1197 of 5,000

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"principal" in example sentences

"principal" appears in 82 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 2 spellings (singular and plural). Here are 3 of them.

Eso es lo principal.

That's the main thing.

Tatoeba #10093316

Uno de los problemas principales era la comida.

One of the main problems was food.

Tatoeba #3991752

Lo principal es decir la verdad.

The main thing is to tell the truth.

Tatoeba #10093314

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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