"as long as..." and "that depends on..."

[randall_flagg]

How do you say "as long as..." and "that depends on..." in Chinese?

I tend to say it this way:

"As long as you like it" = "你喜欢，就好了"

But aren't there any other, catchier ways of expressing this?

How about "As long as he comes back again, I'll forgive him", something along those lines anyway.

For "this depends on" I've been using 这要看, but I've not heard any native speaker use this expression, and it always feels kind of clumsy. So how would you say it?

"(I don't know if I'm going, that depends on who else is going")

Thanks,

Randall

[studentyoung]

as long as: 只要……（A），就……。

"As long as you like it" = "你喜欢，就好了"

（只要）你喜欢就好。

How about "As long as he comes back again, I'll forgive him",

只要他肯回头，我就原谅他。

this depends on: “这得看”、“这要看”、“那得看”、“那要看”、“得看”、“要看”、“取决于……”。

I don't know if I'm going, that depends on who else is going

我不知道我去不去 / 我去不去还没准，得看还有谁去。

Thanks!

[Noodles]

Have you tried thinking in Chinese?

You will always have difficulty finding the exact equivalent in another language.

[YETIboy1230]

Have you tried thinking in Chinese?

You will always have difficulty finding the exact equivalent in another language.

wow...exactly...that is how i learn english...mostly word by word translating is very clumsy and awkward and even worse the chances are that one will lose the whole sentence's meaning[implication]...

[zhenhui]

Yes... something like...

就是嘛！

那还用说？

i can only think of something Singlish to express the above.... which is ...

ya lor!

still need to say meh?