dependre

See also: dependré and dépendre

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dēpendĕre, from Classical Latin dēpendēre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [dəˈpɛn.dɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [dəˈpən.dɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [deˈpen.dɾe]
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Verb

dependre (first-person singular present depenc, first-person singular preterite depenguí, past participle depès); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

  1. to depend [with de ‘on’]
    Ell depèn totalment de la seva mare.
    He depends completely on his mother.
    Un camp central és un camp de forces conservatiu tal que l'energia potencial d'una partícula només depengui de la distància escalar a un punt fix anomenat centre o font del camp.
    A central field is a conservative force field such that the potential energy of a particle depends only on the scalar distance to a fixed point called the center or source of the field.

Conjugation

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