Examples of using "Verdienste" in a sentence and their english translations:
His parents' view was that he was wasting his earnings on a silly girl.
There is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.