Breakdown of Беспошлинный лимит зависит от таможенной стоимости.
зависеть
to depend
от
on
беспошлинный лимит
the duty-free allowance
таможенная стоимость
the customs value
Questions & Answers about Беспошлинный лимит зависит от таможенной стоимости.
What does беспошлинный mean, and how is it built?
Беспошлинный means duty-free or not subject to customs duty.
It is built from:
- без-/бес- = without
- пошлина = duty / customs fee
- -н- / -ый = adjective ending
So literally it means without duty.
A useful thing to notice: the prefix appears here as бес- instead of без- because of spelling rules before certain consonants.
Why is it лимит зависит, not лимита зависит or something else?
Because лимит is the subject of the sentence, so it is in the nominative case.
- лимит = nominative singular
- it is the thing that depends
The verb зависит is also singular, which matches лимит:
- лимит зависит = the limit depends
If лимит were not the subject, its form might change, but here the basic dictionary form is exactly what is needed.
Why do we say зависит от? Can’t зависеть be used without a preposition?