enough

Significado

Det

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

Adv

1. Sufficiently.
2. Fully; quite; used after adjectives to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very.
3. Used after certain adverbs to emphasise that a quality is notable, unexpected, etc.

Pron

A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.

Intj

Stop! Don't do that any more!

Noun

An instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɪˈnʌf/

Etimoloxía

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 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”).).

Oracións

His painting went well , and life went well enough .

The concert was loud enough for everyone in the city to hear .