worth it

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English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

worth it (not comparable)

Worth doing; worth the time, effort, etc.
- 2003, Council of Europe, Learning and Teaching in the Communication Society, page 131:
  Using the Internet as an information resource is hardly worth it just to make student reports richer. It is worth it if the Internet is going to be used as a laboratory for choosing, exploring, searching, justifying and supporting views, etc.

Synonyms

worthwhile

Translations

worth doing

Chinese:
Mandarin: 值得 (zh) (zhídé), 划算 (zh) (huásuàn), 划得來 (zh) (huádelái)
Dutch: de moeite waard zijn
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: sen arvoinen (partitive when used predicatively)
French: valoir la peine (fr), valoir le coup (fr)
German: lohnend (de), erstrebenswert (de)
Hungarian: megér (hu)
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Japanese: 価値がある (かちがある, kachi ga aru)
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: please add this translation if you can
Thai: please add this translation if you can

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