enough
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪˈnʌf/, /iˈnʌf/, /əˈnʌf/
- Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
- I've already had enough coffee today.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Luke 15:17 ↗:
- How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!
- French: assez
- German: genug
- Italian: abbastanza
- Portuguese: bastante, suficiente
- Russian: доста́точно
- Spanish: bastante, suficiente
- Sufficiently.
- I cannot run fast enough to catch up to them.
- Are you man enough to fight me?
- Fully; quite; used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very.
- He is ready enough to accept the offer.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:
- I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0029 ↗:
- “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
- French: suffisamment, assez
- German: genug
- Italian: abbastanza
- Portuguese: bastante, suficientemente
- Russian: доста́точно
- Spanish: suficientemente
- A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
- I have enough to keep me going.
- French: suffisamment, assez
- German: genug
- Italian: abbastanza
- Portuguese: o suficiente
- Russian: доста́точно
- Spanish: bastante
- Stop! Don't do that any more!
- I'm sick of you complaining! Enough!
- French: ça suffit !, assez !
- German: halt!, das genügt
- Italian: basta
- Portuguese: basta!, chega!
- Russian: хватать
- Spanish: basta
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