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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