Любовь важнее денег.

In Russian, the verb to be is usually omitted in the present tense.

So:

• Любовь важнее денег. = Love is more important than money.

Russian does not normally say Любовь есть важнее денег here. That would sound unnatural.

This is very common:

• Он врач. = He is a doctor.
• Москва большая. = Moscow is big.

Важнее is the comparative form of важный (important).

So:

• важный = important
• важнее = more important

In this sentence, важнее means more important.

A very literal breakdown is:

• Любовь = love
• важнее = is more important
• денег = than money

Because after a comparative word like важнее (more important), Russian often uses the genitive case for the thing being compared.

The basic noun is:

• деньги = money

Its genitive form is:

• денег

So:

• Любовь важнее денег. = Love is more important than money.

This structure is very common:

• Он старше меня. = He is older than me.
• Сегодня теплее вчера. = Today is warmer than yesterday.

So денег is not random—it shows the comparison.

Любовь is in the nominative case because it is the subject of the sentence.

Here it means love in a general sense.

Important detail: любовь is a feminine noun, even though that does not change the form of важнее here.

Normally, full adjectives in Russian agree with the noun:

• важный (masculine)
• важная (feminine)
• важное (neuter)
• важные (plural)

But важнее is a comparative form, and comparative forms like this do not change for gender or number.

So you get:

• Любовь важнее денег.
• Время важнее денег.
• Люди важнее денег.

The noun changes, but важнее stays the same.

Yes, you could. It is grammatical and means the same thing.

There are two common ways to make comparisons in Russian:

1. Simple comparative

   • Любовь важнее денег.

2. Analytical comparative

   • Любовь более важна, чем деньги.

The first version is more compact and natural in many everyday contexts.

Notice the difference:

• важнее = simple comparative
• более важна = literally more important
• чем = than

Both are correct, but Любовь важнее денег sounds very natural and concise.

Russian often expresses comparison without чем when using the simple comparative.

So both patterns exist:

• Любовь важнее денег.
• Любовь важнее, чем деньги.

The first one uses the genitive case (денег). The second one uses чем plus the normal noun form (деньги).

Both are correct. The version without чем is very common and stylistically neat.

Yes. Russian word order is more flexible than English word order, though not completely free.

The neutral order here is:

• Любовь важнее денег.

But you might also hear:

• Денег любовь важнее.
• Важнее денег любовь.

These are less neutral and may sound poetic, emphatic, or stylistically marked.

For a learner, the standard order Любовь важнее денег is the best one to use.

The stress is:

• любо́вь
• важнéе
• дéнег

So roughly:

• lyu-BOFV' vazh-NYE-ye DYE-nyek

A few notes:

• Любовь ends in a soft consonant sound.
• важнее has the stress on -не́-.
• денег has the stress on the first syllable.

Here it is the noun любовь meaning love.

Russian also has the female name Любовь, spelled the same way, so context matters.

In this sentence, because of the meaning and the structure, it is clearly the abstract noun love, not the name of a person.

Yes. With no article system in Russian, Любовь here is understood as love in general or love as a concept/value.

So the sentence sounds like a general statement, similar to:

• Честность важнее выгоды. = Honesty is more important than profit.

It is not necessarily talking about one specific love story unless the context makes that clear.