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valer

to be worth

verb bah-LEHR Less Common
Mind & Emotions Values

Also means

to cost, to be valid

Usage Note

Valer is irregular in the first-person singular present: yo valgo. The common exclamation ¡Vale! meaning 'OK, agreed' is standard in Spain but rarely used in Latin America, where de acuerdo or está bien are preferred. No vale la pena ('it's not worth the trouble') is a high-frequency idiom worth memorizing.

Examples

"Este cuadro vale mucho dinero."

Natural Translation

This painting is worth a lot of money.

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