verlohnen

== German == === Etymology === Related to lohnen === Pronunciation === === Verb === verlohnen (weak, third-person singular present verlohnt, past tense verlohnte, past participle verlohnt, auxiliary haben) (higher register) (intransitive or reflexive) to be worth it, to be worthwhile (transitive) to be worth [with accusative or (archaic) genitive ‘something’] (impersonal) to be worth [with zu (+ infinitive) ‘doing something’] Es verlohnt nicht, mehr zu arbeiten. ― It's not worth working any more. (reflexive, impersonal, archaic) for there to be sufficient worth [with genitive ‘to something’] (idiomatically translated by English be worth it or be worthwhile with the genitive object as the subject) es verlohnt sich der Mühe; negative: es verlohnt sich der Mühe nicht, es verlohnt sich nicht der Mühe ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Verlohnen Verlohnung === Further reading === “verlohnen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961. “verlohnen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “verlohnen” in Duden online