How to say “enough” in 49 languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
It is commonest in Malayalam, where മതി is the 66th most used word.
- Afrikaans genoeg #165
- Albanian mjaft enough, sufficiently #173
- Arabic كفاية #835
- Armenian բավական enough, quite #325
- Basque nahikoa #156
- Bengali যথেষ্ট sufficient, enough #256
- Bosnian dovoljno enough, sufficiently #234
- Bulgarian достатъчно sufficiently; enough #201
- Catalan prou enough, an adequate number or amount #187
- Chinese 足以 sufficient to; enough to #1,246
- Croatian dovoljno enough, sufficiently #233
- Czech dost #168
- Danish nok #74
- Dutch genoeg #196
- English dare To have enough courage #971
- Estonian piisavalt #381
- Finnish riittää to be enough, suffice, do #368
- French suffit to be enough, to suffice #585
- Galician pouco a little of something; not enough #153
- Georgian საკმარისი enough, sufficient #346
- German genug enough, sufficient, an adequate number or… #283
- Greek αρκετά #235
- Hebrew מספיק Enough, sufficiently #159
- Hindi पर्याप्त enough, sufficient, adequate, ample #418
- Hungarian eleget #1,529
- Icelandic nóg enough, to a sufficient degree #879
- Italian basta enough! #269
- Latvian diezgan #362
- Lithuanian gana enough, sufficiently #243
- Macedonian доволно sufficiently, enough #175
- Malay sudahlah That's enough #1,092
- Malayalam മതി #66
- Norwegian nok #118
- Persian بس enough, sufficiently #345
- Polish wystarczy to suffice, to be enough, to do #448
- Portuguese suficiente sufficient; enough #456
- Romanian destul enough, plenty, sufficient #223
- Russian достаточно enough, sufficiently #374
- Serbian dovoljno enough, sufficiently #236
- Slovak dosť #134
- Slovenian dovolj enough, sufficient #108
- Spanish suficiente sufficient, enough #391
- Swedish nog enough, sufficient #118
- Tagalog sapat sufficiently; enough; adequately #513
- Tamil போதும் to suffice, be adequate or enough #699
- Telugu చాలు to suffice, to be enough or sufficient, be… #124
- Turkish yeter enough, sufficient #325
- Ukrainian досить enough, sufficiently #229
- Vietnamese cuộc a continuous and long enough event that… #166
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.