"owe it to oneself" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: owes it to oneself [present, singular, third-person], owing it to oneself [participle, present], owed it to oneself [participle, past], owed it to oneself [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} owe it to oneself (third-person singular simple present owes it to oneself, present participle owing it to oneself, simple past and past participle owed it to oneself)
  1. To believe it necessary for one (to do something) in order to advance one's one interests; to deserve. Translations (deserve): 應該 (Chinese Mandarin), 应该 (yīnggāi) (Chinese Mandarin), 值得 (zhídé) (Chinese Mandarin), olla velkaa itselleen (Finnish), ansaita (Finnish)

Inflected forms

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