merece

B1Rank #1708

he/she/it deserves (present form of merecer)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#1708 of 5,000

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"merece" in example sentences

"merece" appears in 101 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Él merece más.

He deserves more.

Tatoeba #2054735

Ella merece más.

She deserves more.

Tatoeba #2182505

Ella merece una vida mejor.

She deserves a better life.

Tatoeba #3717535

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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