How to say “sufficiently” in 30 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 Indonesian, where cukup is the 144th most used word.
- Albanian mjaft enough, sufficiently #173
- Armenian բավականաչափ #1,633
- Basque aski enough, sufficiently #277
- Bosnian dovoljno enough, sufficiently #234
- Bulgarian достатъчно sufficiently; enough #201
- Catalan bastant enough, sufficiently #664
- Chinese 不夠 not enough; not sufficiently #2,118
- Croatian dovoljno enough, sufficiently #233
- Czech dostatečně #2,142
- English ok Satisfactorily, sufficiently well #211
- Esperanto sufiĉe sufficiently, adequately #299
- Georgian საკმარისად #462
- Hebrew מספיק Enough, sufficiently #159
- Indonesian cukup sufficiently, adequately #144
- Italian abbastanza enough, sufficiently #337
- Korean 충분히 #328
- Lithuanian gana enough, sufficiently #243
- Macedonian доволно sufficiently, enough #175
- Malay cukup sufficiently, adequately #205
- Persian بس enough, sufficiently #345
- Polish wystarczająco #808
- Portuguese bastante enough; sufficiently #549
- Romanian suficient #664
- Russian достаточно enough, sufficiently #374
- Serbian dovoljno enough, sufficiently #236
- Spanish suficientemente #1,575
- Swedish tillräckligt sufficiently, enough #663
- Tagalog sapat sufficiently; enough; adequately #513
- Ukrainian досить enough, sufficiently #229
- Vietnamese đủ sufficiently; enough #280
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.