enough

English

Alternative forms

• enow
• anough (obsolete)
• aneuch, eneuch, eneugh (Scotland)
• 'nough

Etymology

From Middle English ynogh, from Old English ġenōg (“enough”), from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz (“enough”) (compare Scots eneuch, West Frisian genôch, Dutch genoeg, German genug, Low German noog, Danish nok, Swedish nog, Icelandic nógur), from *ganuganą 'to suffice' (compare Old English ġeneah), or from *ga- + an unattested *nōgaz, probably ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂nó(n)ḱe (“he has reached, attained”), perfective of *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”) (compare Old Irish tánaic (“he arrived”), Latin nancisci (“to get”), Lithuanian nèšti (“to carry”), Albanian kënaq (“to please, satisfy”), Ancient Greek ἐνεγκεῖν (enenkeîn, “to carry”).).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈnʌf/, /iˈnʌf/, /əˈnʌf/

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• Rhymes: -ʌf
• Hyphenation: e‧nough

Determiner

enough

1. Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.

   I've already had enough coffee today.

   • Bible, Gospel of Luke xv. 17

     How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!

Derived terms

• enoughness

Translations

sufficient

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: كَافٍ (ar) (kāfin), كَفَى (kafā)

  Egyptian Arabic: كفاية (kefāya)

• Armenian: բավականաչափ (hy) (bavakanačʻapʻ), բավական (hy) (bavakan)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: достатъчно (bg) (dostatǎčno)
• Burmese: လောက် (my) (lauk), တော် (my) (tau)
• Catalan: prou (ca), suficient (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夠／够 (zh) (gòu), 够 (zh) (gòu), 足夠／足够 (zh) (zúgòu), 足够 (zh) (zúgòu), 充足 (zh) (chōngzú), 足 (zh) (zú)

• Czech: dost (cs)
• Danish: nok (da)
• Dutch: genoeg (nl), voldoende (nl)
• Esperanto: sufiĉa (eo)
• Ewe: nyo
• Finnish: tarpeeksi (fi), riittävästi (fi), kylliksi (fi), kyllin (fi)
• French: assez (fr)
• Galician: bastante, abondo (gl)
• Georgian: საკმარისი (saḳmarisi), საკმაო (saḳmao)
• German: genug (de)
• Greek: αρκετός (el) (arketós)

  Ancient: ἱκανός (hikanós), ἀρκετός (arketós)

• Gujarati: પૂરતું (pūrtũ)
• Hebrew: מספיק (he) (maspík), די (he) (dái)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: elég (hu), elegendő (hu)
• Irish: dóthain f (+ genitive)
• Italian: abbastanza (it)
• Japanese: 十分 (ja) (じゅうぶん, jūbun), 充分 (ja) (じゅうぶん, jūbun), 足りる (ja) (たりる, tariru)
• Khmer: គ្រប់គ្រាន់ (krup kroan)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:
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• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: satis (la)
• Latvian: gana
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: до́ста (dósta), до́волно (dóvolno)
• Maltese: biżżejjed
• Maori: nanea, rawaka
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: assaïz
• Norwegian: nok (no), tilstrekkelig, fyllestgjørende
• Novial: sati
• Polish: dość (pl), wystarczająco (pl)
• Portuguese: bastante (pt), suficiente (pt)
• Romanian: destul (ro)
• Russian: доста́точно (ru) (dostátočno) (+ genitive), дово́льно (ru) (dovólʹno)
• Serbo-Croatian: довољно, dovoljno (sh)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dosć (+ genitive)

• Spanish: bastante (es), suficiente (es)
• Swahili: basi (sw)
• Swedish: tillräckligt (sv), nog (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tok Pisin: inap
• Turkish: yeterli (tr)
• Vietnamese: đủ (vi)
• West Frisian: genôch
• Yiddish: גענוג (genug)
• Zazaki: bes, qim c
• Zhuang: cuk

Adverb

enough

1. Sufficiently.

   I cannot run fast enough to catch up to them.

   Are you man enough to fight me?

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 16, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’

2. 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 […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.

   • Template:RQ:EHough PrqsPrc

     “[…] 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.”

Usage notes

• As an adverb, enough always follows the verb, adjective or adverb it qualifies.

Derived terms

• given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow

Translations

sufficiently

• Albanian: mjaft (sq)
• Arabic: تَمَامًا (tamāman)
• Armenian: բավականաչափ (hy) (bavakanačʻapʻ), բավարար (hy) (bavarar), բավական (hy) (bavakan)
• Belarusian: дастатко́ва (dastatkóva)
• Breton: a-walc'h (br)
• Bulgarian: доста́тъчно (bg) (dostátǎčno)
• Burmese: အလုံအလောက် (my) (a.lum-a.lauk)
• Catalan: suficientment (ca), prou (ca)
• Chamicuro: ma'sha
• Chichewa: basi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 足夠／足够 (zh) (zúgòu), 足够 (zh) (zúgòu), 夠／够 (zh) (gòu), 够 (zh) (gòu), 充足 (zh) (chōngzú)

• Czech: dost (cs)
• Dutch: genoeg (nl)
• Esperanto: sufiĉe (eo)
• Finnish: tarpeeksi (fi), kyllin (fi), riittävän
• French: suffisamment (fr), assez (fr)
• Galician: bastante, abondo (gl)
• Georgian: საკმარისად (saḳmarisad), საკმაოდ (saḳmaod)
• German: genug (de)

  Alemannic German: gnueg

• Greek: αρκετά (el) (arketá), επαρκώς (el) (eparkós)

  Ancient: ἅλις (hális)

• Hebrew: מַסְפִּיק (he) (maspík)
• Hindi: काफ़ी (hi) (kāfī)
• Ido: sate (io)
• Indonesian: cukup (id)
• Interlingua: satis, assatis
• Irish: go leor
• Italian: abbastanza (it)
• Japanese: 十分に (ja) (じゅうぶんに, jūbun ni), 充分に (ja) (じゅうぶんに, jūbun ni), 足りて (ja) (tarite)
• Khmer: ល្មម (km) (lmɔɔm), បរិបូរ (km) (bɑɑre’boo)
• Korean: 충분히 (ko) (chungbunhi)
• Lao: ພໍ (phǭ), ພຽງພໍ (phīang phǭ)
• Latin: satis (la)
• Latvian: gana
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• Macedonian: до́статно (dóstatno), до́волно (dóvolno)
• Malay: cukup
• Manx: dy liooar
• Maori: rawaka
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: assaïz (Guernsey)
• Novial: sat
• Old Prussian: sūit
• Persian: کافی (fa) (kâfi)
• Polish: dość (pl), dosyć (pl), wystarczająco (pl), na tyle
• Portuguese: bastante (pt), suficientemente
• Quechua: sinchi
• Romanian: destul (ro), suficient (ro), de ajuns
• Russian: доста́точно (ru) (dostátočno), дово́льно (ru) (dovólʹno)
• Scottish Gaelic: gu leòr
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: довољно

  Roman: dovoljno (sh)

• Slovak: dosť
• Slovene: dovòlj (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dosć

• Spanish: suficientemente (es)
• Swedish: tillräckligt (sv), nog (sv)
• Tajik: кофӣ (tg) (kofī)
• Thai: พอ (th) (pɔɔ)
• Tok Pisin: inap
• Turkish: yeterince (tr), yeteri kadar (tr), yeter derecede
• Ukrainian: доста́тньо (dostátnʹo), до́сить (uk) (dósytʹ), достатньо (dostatnʹo)
• Urdu: کافی (kāfī)
• Vietnamese: đủ (vi)
• Welsh: gwala, digon (cy)
• Yiddish: גענוג (genug)
• Zazaki: qim ken
• Zhuang: gaeuq

Pronoun

enough

1. A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.

   I have enough to keep me going.

Translations

a sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc

• Armenian: բավական (hy) (bavakan), բավարար քանակություն (bavarar kʻanakutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: достатъчно (bg) (dostatǎčno)
• Catalan: prou (ca)
• Czech: dost (cs)
• Dutch: genoeg (nl)
• Finnish: tarpeeksi (fi), riittävästi (fi)
• French: suffisamment (fr), assez (fr)
• Galician: abondo (gl)
• Georgian: საკმარისი (saḳmarisi), საკმაო (saḳmao)
• German: genug (de)
• Greek: αρκετά (el) (arketá)
• Hebrew: מספיק (he) (maspík), די (he) (dái)
• Irish: dóthain f
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• Italian: abbastanza (it)
• Japanese: 十分 (ja) (じゅうぶん, jūbun), 充分 (ja) (じゅうぶん, jūbun)
• Macedonian: до́волно (dóvolno)
• Norman: assaïz (Guernsey)
• Norwegian: nok (no)
• Portuguese: o suficiente
• Russian: доста́точно (ru) (dostátočno)
• Serbo-Croatian: довољно, dovoljno (sh)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dosć

• Spanish: bastante (es)
• Swedish: tillräckligt (sv), nog (sv)

Interjection

enough!

1. stop! Don't do that anymore, etc.

   Enough!

Translations

stop!

• Arabic: مَه (mah), كَفَى (kafā) (for good thing), بَسّ (bass) (for bad thing), خَلَاص (ḵalāṣ)

  Egyptian Arabic: كفاية (kefaia), بس (bass), خلاص (khalaaS)

• Armenian: հերիք է (herikʻ ē), բավական է (bavakan ē)
• Basque: aski
• Bulgarian: стига (bg) (stiga), достатъчно (bg) (dostatǎčno)
• Catalan: prou! (ca)
• Czech: dost (cs), a dost, stačilo (cs)
• Dalmatian: buosta
• Dutch: genoeg! (nl)
• Esperanto: sufiĉe (eo)
• Finnish: jo riittää!
• French: ça suffit !, assez !
• Georgian: კმარა (ka) (ḳmara)
• German: halt (de)!, das genügt
• Greek: φτάνει! (el) (ftánei!), αρκετά! (el) (arketá!)
• Hebrew: מספיק (he) (maspík), די (he) (dái)
• Italian: basta (it)
• Japanese: 十分だ (ja) (じゅうぶんだ, jūbun da), 充分だ (ja) (じゅうぶんだ, jūbun da), (imperative, informal) 止めろ (ja) (やめろ, yamero)
• Khmer: ហើយ (km) (haəy)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ,

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• Latin: de hoc satis!
• Latvian: gana!
• Macedonian: доста! (dosta!)
• Maori: kāti
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: kʼadí
• Norwegian: det holder!
• Persian: بس است! (bas ast!), بسه! (fa) (basse!)
• Polish: dosyć (pl), starczy (pl), wystarczy, dość (pl)
• Portuguese: basta (pt)!, chega! (pt)
• Romanian: ajunge (ro)!
• Russian: хва́тит! (ru) (xvátit!), доста́точно! (ru) (dostátočno!)
• Serbo-Croatian: доста (dosta)
• Slovene: dovòlj (sl), básta
• Spanish: ¡basta! (es)
• Swahili: basi! (sw)
• Thai: พอได้แล้ว (th) (pɔɔ-dâai-lɛ́ɛo), หยุดได้แล้ว (th) (yùt-dâai-lɛ́ɛo)
• Turkish: yeter! (tr)
• Vietnamese: đủ rồi !
• Yiddish: גענוג! (genug!)
• Zazaki: beso m

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• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} sufiĉe da
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• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} cukup (id), ^{(please verify)} memadai (id)