how to say “enough” in Hebrew
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There are two words in Hebrew that mean enough.
First word
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| by Eran Finkle taken in Bet Yehoshua, Israel |
מַסְפִּיק (mahs-PEEK) comes from the root ס.פ.ק (s.p.k) meaning sufficiency. מספיק is an adjective and adverb deriving from the active-causative הפעיל verb, לְהַסְפִּיק, meaning to suffice or to manage to get something done (featured a little over a year ago).
For example:
We have enough food.
(yesh LAH-noo mahs-PEEK OH-khel)
He doesn’t/didn’t run fast enough.
(hoo loh rahts mahs-PEEK mah-HEHR)
Second word
The word דַּי (DAH-ee) in the sense of enough is used in Modern Hebrew primarily in the exclamation, !די – enough! !מספיק is used in the same sense.
די also means quite when vocalized דֵּי (DEH-ee), as in the sentence:
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