次第(しだい)だDepending on, So

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  wrt7MameLZE33wlmpCAV

  I just encountered the following example:

  育児がどれくらい大変になるかは、夫や家族がどれくらい協力してくれるか次第だ。
  How difficult child raising becomes depends on how much cooperation your husband and family give you.

  Given that 次第 is a noun suffix, I’m trying to understand how this sentence is grammatical. Does か act as a nominalizer here?

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  mrnoone

  Hey @wrt7MameLZE33wlmpCAV

  か in here marks an embedded question and in some aspects, you can think of it as a noun phrase. Notice that particle 「は」also follows 「か」in
  育児がどれくらい大変になるかは part.

  This phenomenon is fairly common, for example in English you can also use quotations like nouns in some cases like:
  His “you are doing it wrong” is always pissing me off.

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  wrt7MameLZE33wlmpCAV

  OK, I see. Yeah, it does make sense now that you put it that way. I think I was interpretting the Noun + 次第だ structure too strictly. So 次第 can also be used with noun phrases. That’s good to know. Thanks!