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Hen Hanna

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Jun 10, 2022, 11:02:16 PM6/10/22
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could you give me [It depends] in French, German, ... Spanish, Chinese ... ???

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/it_depends#Translations

Dutch: het hangt ervan af
Finnish: se riippuu (jostakin)
French: ça dépend
German: das kommt darauf an



On June 10, 2022 tonbei wrote:
> Depends
>
> I have a question about the following sentences from a novel.
>
> "See that mountaintop?" Smith pointed. "A chopper landed on it twenty minutes ago."
> "Great." Edwards unfolded his map and sat down. "Hill 1063 - that's thirty-five hundred feet. Makes a nice lookout point, don't it? You suppose they can see us from there?"

> "Ten or eleven miles. Depends, skipper. I figure they're using it to watch the water on both sides. If they have any brains, they'll ' keep an eye on the rocks, too."


> "Any idea how many people they have there?" Edwards asked.
> "No way. Maybe nobody - hell, they might have been making a pickup ... but I wouldn't bet on it. Maybe a squad, maybe a platoon. You gotta figure they have a good pair of spotting glasses and a radio."

------------------ ("Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy, p.568)

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