diff --git a/recipes-kde/kf5/tier1/sonnet/sonnet.bb b/recipes-kde/kf5/tier1/sonnet/sonnet.bb
index a64f6633..e54f9bec 100644
--- a/recipes-kde/kf5/tier1/sonnet/sonnet.bb
+++ b/recipes-kde/kf5/tier1/sonnet/sonnet.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 require ${BPN}.inc
 
+DEPENDS += "qttools"
+
 SRC_URI += " \
     file://0001-Make-our-cross-build-find-parsetrigrams.patch \
     file://0002-make-build-of-hunspell-optional.patch \