/ɪˈnʌf/
Translation
As much as you need, not too little and not too much.
Word origin
From Old English genoh, the word for a full amount, shared across the old Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- genoh
Examples
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"Enough" means as hot as you need, no more.
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"Enough" asks if you have as much warmth as you need.
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"Enough" means he has reached the age that is needed.
We use enough to say that there is as much of something as you need, not too little. If you have eaten enough, you do not need more food. Enough comes after the word it describes, as in good enough or fast enough.
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Grammar articles
(22)Adjective order in English: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose
Advanced articles in English: the zero article, the with names and places, and go to school vs go to the school
Causative have and get in English: have something done, get something done and having someone do it
Compound nouns in English: car park, coffee cup, and why GREENhouse is not green HOUSE
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Discourse markers in English: well, anyway, actually, mind you and by the way
Dummy subjects in English: it's raining, there's a problem, and why the subject slot is never empty
Emphasis in English: I do like it, my own, the very, and how to push back
For, since, already, yet and still in English: which word, and where it goes in the sentence
Gradable and ungradable adjectives: why very furious sounds wrong, and which intensifier goes where
Hedging and vague language in English: sort of, a bit, -ish, stuff and or so
Inversion and word order in English: the subject-verb-object spine and when it flips
Linking words in English: however, although, even though, despite and therefore
Modals of deduction in English: must be, might be, could be and can't be
Participle clauses in English: -ing and -ed clauses, and the dangling participle trap
Advanced passive structures in English: the get-passive, it is said that, and passives with two objects
Past perfect tense: had plus past participle, and when English actually needs it
Quantifiers in English: some, any, much, many and more
Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns in English: myself, yourself, each other, and when English does not bother
So, such, too and enough in English: words of degree and result
Time clauses in English: when, while, as soon as, until, before and after
Word formation with prefixes: un-, in-, im-, dis-, re-, over-, under- and mis-
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