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# depend

«depend» in Mova's school dictionary: **to change according to it: the answer depends on the numbers** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (depend, depends, depended, depending)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To depend on something means to change according to it: the answer depends on the numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depend/#m1)

2) To depend on someone is to need them or trust them: babies depend on their parents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depend/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

whether giving adds or subtracts changes with who gives («it depends on who gives to whom»); in science living things depend on each other (bees depend on flowers); in everyday life «It depends» (it is not always the same), «you can depend on me»

### examples

- Giving can make you have more or less: it depends on who gives to whom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depend/#x1)
- The answer depends on how many groups there are. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depend/#x2)
- Are we going outside? It depends on the weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depend/#x3)
- Plants depend on sunlight to grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depend/#x4)
- Baby birds depend on their parents for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depend/#x5)
- You can depend on Sam; he always keeps his promises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depend/#x6)
- The price depends on the size of the pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depend/#x7)
- Why, you know that our life depends on him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depend/#x8)

### note

«give» has no fixed operation: find who gives and who receives. Always «depend on» (not «depend of»). Adjective «dependable» (can be trusted).

### In the corpora

- [Many things people love depend on bodies, feelings and being human, such as watching people play sport.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/9/)
- [The future of AI is probably neither all wonderful nor all terrible; it depends on the choices people make.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/12/)
- [The family of an instrument depends on how the sound is made, not on its material.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys/16/)
- [The colour of an eggshell depends on the hen's breed, not on how healthy the egg is.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/10/)
- [The domestic silk moth cannot fly properly and no longer lives in the wild; it depends on people completely.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «depend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.