Она заслуживает уважения.

Because the verb заслуживать normally takes the genitive case in Russian.

• Dictionary form: уважение = respect
• Genitive singular: уважения

So:

• Она заслуживает уважения. = She deserves respect.

This is something you usually just learn with the verb: заслуживать / заслужить что? in older descriptions you may expect accusative, but in real usage заслуживать уважения, доверия, внимания with genitive is very common and standard.

A useful pattern is:

• заслуживать внимания = to deserve attention
• заслуживать доверия = to deserve trust
• заслуживать похвалы = to deserve praise

Заслуживает is the 3rd person singular present tense form of заслуживать.

Breakdown:

• заслуживать = to deserve, to earn
• она = she
• она заслуживает = she deserves / she is earning

Conjugation of заслуживать in the present:

• я заслуживаю
• ты заслуживаешь
• он / она заслуживает
• мы заслуживаем
• вы заслуживаете
• они заслуживают

So заслуживает matches она.

Because Russian often uses the present tense where English also uses the present tense for a general statement.

Она заслуживает уважения is not necessarily about something happening right now at this exact second. It usually means a general fact or judgment:

• she deserves respect
• she is worthy of respect
• she has earned respect

So the present tense here expresses a current, general truth.

They are an aspect pair:

• заслуживать = imperfective
• заслужить = perfective

In this sentence, заслуживает comes from the imperfective заслуживать, which is normal for present-tense general statements.

Compare:

• Она заслуживает уважения. = She deserves respect. / She is deserving of respect.
• Она заслужила уважение коллег. = She earned the respect of her colleagues.

A simple way to feel the difference:

• заслуживать focuses on the state/process/general quality
• заслужить focuses on achieving the result

Also, perfective verbs do not normally have a present tense meaning in Russian. Their present-looking forms usually refer to the future.

Yes, it can be omitted if the subject is already clear from context.

Russian often drops pronouns when the meaning is obvious:

• Она заслуживает уважения. = She deserves respect.
• Заслуживает уважения. = Deserves respect. / She deserves respect. / It deserves respect, depending on context.

You keep она when:

• you want to make the subject explicit
• you are introducing the subject
• you want contrast or emphasis

For example:

• Он этого не понимает, а она заслуживает уважения.
  He doesn’t understand that, but she deserves respect.

Russian has no articles like a/an or the.

So уважение or уважения can mean:

• respect
• the respect
• some respect

The exact meaning depends on context.

In Она заслуживает уважения, English naturally uses just respect without an article, and Russian does the same.

Уважение means respect, in the sense of esteem, regard, or admiration for someone.

In this sentence, it refers to respect as an abstract quality, not one specific act. So the sentence means that she is a person who merits respect from others.

Related words:

• уважать = to respect
• уважаемый = respected / esteemed
• с уважением = sincerely / with respect (for example, in letters)

Yes. Russian word order is flexible, though the neutral order here is very natural:

• Она заслуживает уважения.

Other orders are possible, but they change emphasis:

• Уважения она заслуживает.
  Emphasizes respect: Respect is what she deserves.
• Заслуживает она уважения.
  Can sound contrastive, stylistic, or context-dependent.

For a learner, the basic order Она заслуживает уважения is the best one to use.

The stress is:

• она́
• заслу́живает
• уваже́ния

So roughly:

• она́ заслу́живает уваже́ния

A rough English-style approximation is:

• a-NAH za-SLOO-zhi-va-yet oo-va-ZHEN-ee-ya

A few notes:

• ж sounds like the s in measure
• unstressed о often sounds closer to a
• я at the end of уважения sounds like ya

Yes, Она достойна уважения is very natural and very close in meaning.

Compare:

• Она заслуживает уважения. = She deserves respect. / She has earned respect.
• Она достойна уважения. = She is worthy of respect.

The difference is small but useful:

• заслуживает often suggests that her actions, character, or achievements justify respect
• достойна focuses more on her worthiness as a quality

Both are good Russian, but заслуживает уважения can sound slightly more like has earned it.

It sounds mostly neutral to slightly formal.

It is a very natural sentence in:

• writing
• conversation
• public speech
• commentary about someone’s behavior or achievements

It is not slangy, and it is not overly emotional. It is a calm, standard way to say that someone deserves respect.

If you wanted something stronger or more emotional, you might add words:

• Она действительно заслуживает уважения. = She really deserves respect.
• Она заслуживает огромного уважения. = She deserves great respect.

Yes. Depending on context, заслуживать / заслужить can be translated as either deserve or earn.

For example:

• Она заслуживает уважения. = She deserves respect.
• Она заслужила уважение коллег. = She earned the respect of her colleagues.

English often separates deserve and earn more clearly, but Russian uses this verb family for both ideas. The context tells you which English word fits best.