valia

n. worth, price; value; importance

v. aid, help; protect; serve; avail; cause; earn; cost; be useful; be valid; score; amount; hold

n. price, value

v. earn, profit

= worthiness, claim to fame.
Nota: Algo por lo que Alguien destaca.
Ex: Another goal of terrorism is to demonstrate to terrorists their own worthiness and thus to claim a sort of moral victory over their enemies.
Ex: Not one, but five towns use albino squirrels as their claims to fame, and none is particularly happy about the others.
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* demostrar la valía = realise + the potential.
* demostrar su valía = prove + its worth, prove + Posesivo + value, realise + its full potential, prove + Posesivo + worth, prove + Reflexivo.
* ser consciente de + Posesivo + valía = be alive to + Posesivo + worth.
* valía profesional = merit.

= be worth, cost, do.
Nota: Verbo irregular: pasado did, participio done.
Ex: As an inveterate user of the British Museum Library he was able to confirm that 'a library is not worth anything without a catalogue'.
Ex: The Mansell pre-1956 imprint catalog, in 604 volumes, is being edited at the rate of 20,000 entries a week, and is costing $1 million per year to edit.
Ex: It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, 'memex' will do.
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* enterarse (de) lo que vale un peine = get + the rough edge of + Posesivo + tongue.
* hacer valer = vindicate.
* hacer valer sus derechos = assert + Posesivo + rights.
* hacer valer una idea = enforce + idea.
* más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer = better the devil you know (than the devil you don't).
* más vale prevenir que curar = a stitch in time saves nine, better (to be) safe than sorry.
* más vale que + Subjuntivo = might + as well + Verbo.
* más vale tarde que nunca = better late than never.
* no valer gran cosa = be no great shakes.
* no valer la pena = be no good.
* que vale la pena = worthwhile.
* una imagen vale más que mil palabras = a picture is worth more than ten thousand words.
* una imagen vale mil palabras = every picture tells a story.
* vale la mitad = half the price.
* vale más vale prevenir que curar = a stitch in time saves nine.
* valer el oro y el moro = cost + the earth, cost + an arm and a leg, cost + a pretty penny.
* valer la pena = be not for nothing, be worth it, be worthwhile, be worth + the effort, be worth + Posesivo + time.
* valer la pena + Infinitivo = be worth + Gerundio, be worth + Gerundio.
* valer la pena leer Algo = repay + reading.
* valerle la pena a Uno = be worth + Posesivo + while.
* valer un montón = cost + a bundle.
* valer un ojo de la cara = cost + the earth, cost + an arm and a leg, cost + a pretty penny.
* valer un riñón = cost + an arm and a leg, cost + the earth.