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olla riippuvainen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • depend verb To rely on someone or something for support, help, or a particular outcome.

Senses

olla riippuvainen is used for these senses in English:

  • depend (intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of like independent does) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
  • depend (intransitive, usually followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
  • depend (now, literary, heraldry) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above, especially in heraldry, where a badge, decoration, or element is suspended from another part of an achievement of arms.
  • depend (archaic) To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.
  • depend (transitive) To cause to be contingent or dependent on; to set as a necessity.

depend — full definition

  1. verb To rely on someone or something for support, help, or a particular outcome.
  2. verb To vary according to circumstances; used to say an answer isn't fixed.

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