English → Tetun
deserve
merese
Example sentences
Does Ronaldo deserve it?
Hakfu'ik ba Ronaldo?
He does indeed deserve this punishment, as he killed two people.
Nia merese duni kastigu ne'e, tanba nia oho ema na'in rua.
My wife does not deserve me to hurt her.
Ha'u-nia feen la merese atu ha'u halo aat ba nia.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.