How do you use the word "enough" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "enough": I don't speak French well enough! You're not fast enough.

Enough Meaning

/ɪˈnʌf/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

detSufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.

detSufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate., Used before a noun in the manner of words like some, a bit of, and so on.

Sentence Examples

I don't speak French well enough!

You're not fast enough.

I hadn't trained enough for the game.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

decent plenty adequate

Antonyms:

insufficient

CEFR Practice Quiz

We had ____ food to feed the entire village during the festival.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Do you have ____ ingredients to bake the cake, or should we go to the store?

Word Origin & History

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 (ge)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”), Albanian kënaq (“to please, satisfy”)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!" — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 15:17:

"But it wasn’t ransom enough. His captors accepted it all, But didn’t let go of the king." — 1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:

"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." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"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." — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"‘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?’" — 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

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