Translation for "principal thing" to spanish

Principal thing

• cosa principal
• lo principal

Translation examples

cosa principal

My father’s embryo did not lack the principal thing.
Ni al embrión de mi padre le faltó la cosa principal.

“And what, in your view, signorina, is this principal thing?”
—¿Y cuál es, señorita, según usted, esta cosa principal?

Your wife had the principal thing that makes everything beautiful.
Su esposa tenía la cosa principal que hace todo lindo.

Grandmother became pregnant other times, but all my father’s possible siblings evidently lacked the principal thing, and turned back after the first months, unwilling to be born.
Luego la abuela quedó embarazada de nuevo, pero a todos aquellos que habrían sido hermanos de mi padre evidentemente les faltó la famosa cosa principal, y no quisieron nacer y se iban luego de los primeros meses.

And later, when she lost the babies in the first months of pregnancy, she said that she would not have been a good mother because she lacked the principal thing, and that her children were not born because they, too, lacked that thing, and so she shut herself up in her world of the moon.
Y también después, cuando perdía los niños en los primeros meses de embarazo, decía así, que ella no sería una buena madre porque le faltaba la cosa principal y que sus hijos no nacían porque también a ellos les faltaba esa misma cosa y, por lo tanto, se encerraba en ese mundo suyo de la luna.

With him she felt no embarrassment, not even if they peed together to get rid of the stones, and since her whole life she had been told that she was like someone from the land of the moon, it seemed to her that she had finally met someone from her own land, and that was the principal thing in life, which she had never had.
Con él no se avergonzaba de nada, ni siquiera de hacer pis juntos para expulsar las piedras, y como toda la vida le habían dicho que parecía de un pueblo de la luna, le pareció haber encontrado, finalmente, a uno de su mismo pueblo, y era ésa la cosa principal de la vida, que siempre le había faltado.

She was so sorry, and it pained her, and she wondered why God, when it comes to love, which is the principal thing, organizes things in such a ridiculous way: where you can do every possible and imaginable kindness, and there’s no way to make it happen, and you might even be mean, as she was now, not even lending him her scarf, and yet he followed her through the snow, half frozen, missing the chance, lover of food that he was, to eat the local potato ravioli and porchetto on the spit.
Le molestaba muchísimo y le daba pena, y le preguntaba a Dios por qué, en el amor, que es la cosa principal, organiza las cosas de ese modo absurdo, que haces todas las gentilezas posibles e imaginables y no hay forma de hacerlo venir, y quizá te haces la estúpida, como se estaba comportando ella ahora, que no le había prestado ni siquiera la bufanda, y, en cambio, él la seguía, en la nieve, medio congelado, perdiendo incluso la ocasión, de buen comer como él era, de comer los ravioles de papa de aquellos lugares y el lechón al spiedo.

lo principal

But that isn't the principal thing.
Pero eso no es lo principal.

The principal thing is she wants me to leave Rome.
Lo principal es que ella quiere que yo deje Roma.

You still seem like an important person, and that's the principal thing.
Sigues pareciendo una persona importante, y eso es lo principal.

Give me the principal thing.
Dame lo principal.

You will know with me the principal thing.
"Conocerá conmigo lo principal."

The self is not the principal thing.
El yo no es lo principal.

But the principal thing was a man. A man!
Pero lo principal era un hombre. ¡Un hombre!

The principal thing is not to get a dose;
Lo principal es no coger purgaciones;

They put money into circulation--that's the principal thing.
Hacen circular dinero: eso es lo principal.

But this is not the principal thing which I came to tell you.
Pero esto no es lo principal que he venido a contarte.

but for me the principal thing is that it's a time when I'm not a crook.
pero para mí lo principal es que son tiempos en los que no soy un maleante.