B1🔤 Letters M & N
Italian word
meritare
to deserve, to merit
Looks like
merit (verb form)
to be worthy of / to deserve
⚠️ The trap
Fairly close, but in Italian 'meritare' is also used colloquially to mean 'it's worth it' (es. 'Merita visitare Roma' = Rome is worth visiting), which has no English equivalent.
To say "to be worthy of / to deserve" in Italian:
N/A — similar meaning
"meritare" in English means:
to deserve, to merit
Example
"Meriti un riposo dopo tutto questo lavoro."
"You deserve a rest after all this work."
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