it depends

English

English phrasebook

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Phrase

it depends

1. Used to indicate that different situations may produce different results.

Translations

it depends

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: على حسب (ʕála ḥásab)

  South Levantine Arabic: حسب (ḥásab)

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 睇情況／睇情况 (tai² cing⁴ fong³)

  Mandarin: 看情況／看情况 (zh) (kàn qíngkuàng), 取決於……／取决于…… (qǔjuéyú...) ("it depends on...")

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: het hangt ervan af
• Finnish: se riippuu (jostakin)
• French: ça dépend
• German: das kommt darauf an
• Hindi: वह निर्भर करता हैं (vah nirbhar kartā ha͠i)
• Hungarian: attól függ
• Italian: dipende (it)
• Polish: to zależy
• Portuguese: depende (pt)
• Romanian: depinde (ro)
• Spanish: depende (es)
• Swedish: det beror på
• Tagalog: depende
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• stipended