-기에 따라: Depending On… — Outcome Changes With X

Connective from 따르다: after -기에, marks that what follows depends on the named factor.

Before this, make sure you know: 에 따라(서) , -기 , -아요 / -어요

How to form it

When	Form	Example
Verb + -기에 따라	-기에 따라	하기에 따라 / 생각하기에 따라
With 서	-기에 따라서	하기에 따라서

-기에 따라 means depending on… — the outcome changes with the condition you name.

Why this is hard

It looks like reason -기에 plus 따라. Learners then mix it with occasion particle 따라 — 오늘따라 — and with noun 에 따라. This slot is condition → changing result, not “of all days,” and not bare-noun 에 따라 without the -기 package.

What it does

You say the result is not fixed; it varies with how or under what condition something is done.

노력하기에 따라 결과가 달라요.
마음에 따라 선택이 바뀌어요.
생각하기에 따라 달라요.
준비하기에 따라 쉬울 수도 있어요.

Forms

Verb + -기에 따라. The noun neighbour is 에 따라.

When not to use it

Do not read it as 오늘따라 occasion colour. Do not drop -기 and invent bare 따라 for method. Do not use it when the outcome never varies at all.

Neighbours — and why they differ

Form	Why it is not this slot
따라	Occasion of all days — different job.
에 따라	Noun + 에 따라 depending on.
-기 나름이다	Depends on how/who — near twin.

Classroom pairs often refuse a locked fate sentence with this frame: show two different outcomes under two conditions.

Ask: does the outcome change with that condition? If yes, -기에 따라. If you mean ‘today of all days,’ use occasion 따라.

Do not confuse it with

에 따라(서)

depending on / according to (variable criterion frame)

-기 나름이다

depends on how you… — the outcome varies with the method

따라

by chance then — coincidentally on that occasion (not "according to")

Taught alongside this

On the jabi learning path, this appears in 표현 (expression) — Advanced Korean 1, Unit 4, on the theme of expression. These come with it:

-는다니1 what are they telling me to…? — asking what the order was -었던 that had been… — past modifier with a lingering sense 에 관하여 regarding, about — the written 에 관하여 / 관한 -자기에 because one decides to… — contracted -자고 하기에 (청유 인용 + 이유), pair of -는다기에 -게 마련이다 bound to be — naturally so (-기/게 마련이다) -게 생겼다 have ended up (badly)… — negative predicament with -게 생기다 -기 나름이다 depends on how you… — the outcome varies with the method -기가 바쁘게 as soon as — barely finishing one thing before the next -기가 쉽다 easy to… / prone to — a tendency that comes naturally -기만 하다 only does… — limiting the action to just that -기에 앞서(서) before doing… — prior to the step you name -은 나머지 as a result of… — the outcome that follows from that act -는 데다가 and on top of that — stacking one fact onto another -는 동시에 at the same time as — two things in the same moment -는 듯하다 seems to… — a soft guess from appearance -는 법이다 it is natural that… — a general rule of how things go -는 이상 now that / given that — already being in that state -은 채로 while still… — leaving it in the state it already has -는 척하다 pretend to… — acting as if -는 가운데 in the midst of — while that situation continues 는 말할 것도 없고 not to mention — A goes without saying, and B too (는/은 말할 것도 없고) -을 만하다 worth doing / decent enough — worth the effort or acceptable -을 법하다 likely to… — a reasonable prediction -을 테다 will (for sure) — a strong expectation about what follows -을 테면 if you are going to… — setting a condition for a plan -을 테지만 will, but… — expecting one thing and contrasting another -으려나 보다 I guess they mean to… — reading someone's likely intention 를 가지고 with, using — taking that as the means or topic -으면 몰라도 only if… — the following holds only under that (unreal / opposite) condition 에도 불구하고 despite — in spite of that noun situation -는데도 even though — contrast after a clause, softer than 지만 -어 내다 manage to… — pushing through until it is done -는다기에 because they say… — the reported claim is the reason -는다는 것이 meant to…, but — intention (-는다고 하는 것이) whose result diverged -는데도 불구하고 even so — despite the whole preceding clause

Words used above

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-기에 따라-gie ttaradepending on…

따라ttaraaccording to / depending

생각saenggakthought

결과gyeolgwaresult

사람saramperson

Quick check

No sign-up, no score saved — just see if it stuck.

1. The score is not fixed — it changes with how hard you work. Which line tracks that factor?

2. Which line uses the forms-table shape 생각하기에 따라?

3. Same outcome talk — you mean the result depends on the factor, not ‘today of all days’ coincidence. Which line?

Common questions

Dictionary?

우리말샘 따르다 「008」: mainly 따라(서), 따른, 따르면 — base on a case, fact, or standard.

Vs 에 따라?

에 따라 after a noun. -기에 따라 after a verb nominal.

Vs -기 나름이다?

Close. 나름 often feels ‘up to how you handle it’; 따라 feels ‘according to the factor’.

Vs 오늘따라?

Spelling cousin, different job — coincidental day vs depending-on.