valer la pena

valer la pena

to be worth it

■ vale la pena ir it's worth going

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to be worthwhile

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(v.) = be not for nothing, be worth it, be worthwhile, be worth + the effort, be worth + Posesivo + time

Ex. It was not for nothing that he had learned to identify and isolate problems and to solve them.

Ex. But the costs that I've seen so far aren't worth it for what it gets for our patrons.

Ex. The School Library Association, therefore, deemed it worthwhile to draft and publish an abridged version of BC in 1967.

Ex. This attitude reinforces the concept that the family is still alive, functioning and worth the effort to build and maintain.

Ex. Just as we previously enumerated some of the golden rules of library collecting, so it is worth our time to dwell on some of the changes that will impinge on librarianship.

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(v.) = be not for nothing, be worth it, be worthwhile, be worth + the effort, be worth + Posesivo + time

Ex: It was not for nothing that he had learned to identify and isolate problems and to solve them.

Ex: But the costs that I've seen so far aren't worth it for what it gets for our patrons.

Ex: The School Library Association, therefore, deemed it worthwhile to draft and publish an abridged version of BC in 1967.

Ex: This attitude reinforces the concept that the family is still alive, functioning and worth the effort to build and maintain.

Ex: Just as we previously enumerated some of the golden rules of library collecting, so it is worth our time to dwell on some of the changes that will impinge on librarianship.