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dependent

dependent /de.pen.ˈdent/

adjective#3448 most common

Also: addicted, reliant

Example sentences

El este dependent de mama lui.
He is dependent on his mother.
Ea este dependentă de cafea.
She is dependent on coffee.
Copiii mici sunt dependenți de părinții lor.
Small children are dependent on their parents.
Economia țării este dependentă de exporturi.
The country's economy is dependent on exports.
A devenit dependent de internet în ultimii ani.
He became dependent on the internet in recent years.
Fiind dependent de nicotină, a avut nevoie de ajutor specializat ca să se lase de fumat.
Being dependent on nicotine, he needed specialized help to quit smoking.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativedependent (m) / dependentă (f)dependenți (m) / dependente (f)
Genitivedependent (m) / dependente (f)dependenți (m) / dependente (f)
Accusativedependent (m) / dependentă (f)dependenți (m) / dependente (f)
Vocativedependent (m) / dependentă (f)dependenți (m) / dependente (f)

Word family

dependențădependence, addiction
a depindeto depend
independentindependent
independențăindependence
codependentcodependent

Etymology

Romanian borrowed "dependent" from French "dépendant" during the nineteenth-century wave of Latin-based vocabulary building. The word traces back to Latin "dependens", the present participle of "dependere", meaning to hang down from. The core sense of hanging on something else became the abstract sense of relying on something else.

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