genug

• genung, gnung (archaic, dialectal)

From Old High German ginuog, from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz. Cognate with Dutch genoeg, Low German noog, English enough, West Frisian genôch, Danish nok, Swedish nog. The Proto-Germanic word is a compound of the prefix *ga- + unreflexed *nōgaz. The latter is derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂nóḱe (“to reach, achieve, carry out”), a form of *h₂neḱ-.[1]

Further Indo-European cognates: Latin nancisci (“to get, to abtain”), Slovene nesti (“to carry”), Albanian kënaq (“to satisfy”)

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈnuːk/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈnʊx/ (in northern and central Germany; chiefly colloquial)

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• Rhymes: -uːk

genug

1. (invariable) enough, sufficient, an adequate number or amount of

   Wir haben nicht genug Geld.

   We don't have enough money.

• Genug can never follow an article or another determiner. Moreover, it is rather often used after the referent for emphasis: Die haben Geld genug! (“They have money enough!”)

genug

1. (invariable) enough, an adequate number or amount

   Das ist genug.

   That's enough.

genug

1. enough, sufficiently, in an adequate way

   Die Kinder haben genug gespielt.

   The children have played enough.

• Genug can be followed and preceded by a genitive as in genug der Worte, rarer der Worte genug.

genug!

1. enough!

   Genug! Hör auf mit diesem Unsinn! — Enough! Quit this nonsense!

• (enough, sufficient): genügend, ausreichend, adequat

• (enough, sufficient): ungenügend, unzureichend, inadequat

• Genüge f
• genügen
• genügend
• genügsam
• Genugtuung f

• “genug” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.