Deserve

//dɪˈzɜːv//

Synonyms for "deserve" (11 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (3)

Strong matches (3)

Verb(2 words)

Related words (5)

Verb(2 words)

Related word relations

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6 relation types

Translations

89 translations across 52 languages.

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Afrikaans

1 entries
  • verdien verb (to merit)

Arabic

3 entries
  • استحق verb (to merit)
  • اِسْتاهَل verb (to merit)
  • اِسْتَحَقَّ verb (to merit)

Belarusian

3 entries
  • заслу́жваць verb (to merit)
  • заслуго́ўваць verb (to merit)
  • заслужы́ць verb (to merit)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • заслу́жа verb (to merit)
  • заслужа́вам verb (to merit)

Catalan

2 entries
  • meritar verb (to merit)
  • merèixer verb (to merit)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 值得 verb (to merit)
  • 應受 /应受 verb (to merit)

Cornish

1 entries
  • deservya verb (to merit)

Corsican

2 entries
  • merità verb (to merit)
  • mirità verb (to merit)

Czech

2 entries
  • zasloužit verb (to merit)
  • zasloužit si verb (to merit)

Danish

1 entries
  • fortjene verb (to merit)

Dutch

1 entries
  • verdienen verb (to merit)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • meriti verb (to merit)

Faroese

1 entries
  • hava uppiborið verb (to merit)

Finnish

1 entries
  • ansaita verb (to merit)

French

1 entries
  • mériter verb (to merit)

Friulian

1 entries
  • mertâ verb (to merit)

Galician

1 entries
  • merecer verb (to merit)

German

1 entries
  • verdienen verb (to merit)

Greek

1 entries
  • αξίζω verb (to merit)

Hindi

1 entries
  • लायक़ verb (to merit)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • kiérdemel verb (to merit)
  • megszolgál verb (to merit)
  • megérdemel verb (to merit)
  • rászolgál verb (to merit)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • eiga skilið verb (to merit)

Italian

2 entries
  • meritare verb (to merit)
  • meritarsi verb (to merit)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 値する verb (to merit)

Latin

1 entries
  • mereō verb (to merit)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • nusipelnyti verb (to merit)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • заслужи verb (to merit)
  • заслужува verb (to merit)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries
  • ustahiki verb (to merit)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • fortjene verb (to merit)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries
  • fortena verb (to merit)
  • fortene verb (to merit)

Persian

1 entries
  • سزاوار بودن verb (to merit)

Polish

2 entries
  • zasługiwać verb (to merit)
  • zasłużyć verb (to merit)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • merecer verb (to merit)

Romanian

1 entries
  • merita verb (to merit)

Romansch

4 entries
  • maritar verb (to merit)
  • meritar verb (to merit)
  • meriter verb (to merit)
  • miritar verb (to merit)

Russian

2 entries
  • заслу́живать verb (to merit)
  • заслужи́ть verb (to merit)

Sanskrit

1 entries
  • अर्हति verb (to merit)

Sardinian

4 entries
  • manesci verb (to merit)
  • medèsciri verb (to merit)
  • menèsciri verb (to merit)
  • meresci verb (to merit)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • zaslúžiti verb (to merit)
  • zavrijédjeti verb (to merit)
  • zavrédeti verb (to merit)
  • завре́дети verb (to merit)

Sicilian

1 entries
  • miritari verb (to merit)

Slovak

1 entries
  • zaslúžiť si verb (to merit)

Slovene

1 entries
  • zaslužiti verb (to merit)

Spanish

3 entries
  • ameritar verb (to merit)
  • merecer verb (to merit)
  • meritar verb (to merit)

Swahili

1 entries
  • stahiki verb (to merit)

Swedish

1 entries
  • förtjäna verb (to merit)

Telugu

1 entries
  • అర్హత కలిగి ఉండిన verb (to merit)

Turkish

1 entries
  • hak etmek verb (to merit)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • заслуго́вувати verb (to merit)
  • заслужи́ти verb (to merit)

Urdu

1 entries
  • لائق verb (to merit)

Venetan

1 entries
  • meritar verb (to merit)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • xứng đáng verb (to merit)

Welsh

1 entries
  • haeddu verb (to merit)

Sample sentences

21 total sentences available.

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You deserve the prize.

Source: tatoeba (17534)

You deserve to succeed.

Source: tatoeba (17579)

You're always lying- that's why people don't take you seriously. You get what you deserve.

Source: tatoeba (26659)

The honor is more than I deserve.

Source: tatoeba (42296)

Showing 4 of 21 available sentences.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.