merecer
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *merēscere, from Latin merēre.
Verb
[edit]merecer (first-person singular present merezo, first-person singular preterite merecín, past participle merecido)
- (transitive) to deserve, to merit
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of merecer (c-z alternation)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “merecer”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *merēscere, from Latin merēre.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: me‧re‧cer
Verb
[edit]merecer (first-person singular present mereço, first-person singular preterite mereci, past participle merecido)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of merecer (c-ç alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *merēscere, from Latin merēre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /meɾeˈ
θ eɾ/ [me.ɾeˈθ eɾ] - IPA(key): (Latin America) /meɾeˈseɾ/ [me.ɾeˈseɾ]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: me‧re‧cer
Verb
[edit]merecer (first-person singular present merezco, first-person singular preterite merecí, past participle merecido)
- to deserve
- Mereces mucho más que esto.
- You deserve a lot more than this.
- (Argentina, vulgar, slang, dated) to have sex, used especially when talking about a nubile girl
- Ella está en edad de merecer.
- She is of the age of deserving.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of merecer (c-zc alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of merecer (c-zc alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “merecer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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