無夠
Chinese edit
not have | to reach; to be enough | ||
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trad. (無夠) | 無 | 夠 | |
simp. (无够) | 无 | 够 |
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
無夠
- to be insufficient; to be lacking; to not be enough
- 生食都無夠,哪有通曝乾? [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
- Chheⁿ-chia̍h to bô-kàu, ná ū thang pha̍k-koaⁿ? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
- It's not enough to eat now, how could there be extra left to dry and store?
(Which means that life has been already tough, and the speaker dare not have extravagant hopes for the future.)
生食都无够,哪有通曝干? [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
Synonyms edit
Adverb edit
無夠
- not enough; not sufficiently
Synonyms edit
References edit
- “Entry #14606”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.