Compare the use of enough (suficiente) and too (demasiado) with adjectives, adverbs and nouns:
Adjectives |
Adverbs |
Countable nouns |
Uncountable nouns |
---|---|---|---|
big enough |
quickly enough |
enough books |
enough paper |
too big |
too quickly |
too many books |
too much paper |
Notice that enough goes after adjectives and adverbs, but normally before nouns, e.g.:
Example | Spanish | |
After adjectives | Are you warm enough? | ¿Tiene suficiente calor? |
Whisky is too strong for me | El whisky es demasiado fuerte para mí. | |
This table is too heavy for me to move | Esta mesa pesa demasiado para que yo la pueda mover. | |
Before nouns | She didn't have enough money for a taxi. | No tenía suficiente dinero para un taxi. |
Have we got enough butter to make a cake? | ¿Tenemos suficiente mantequilla para hacer un pastel? | |
There were too many people in the lift | Había demasiada gente en el ascensor. |
Note that too alone cannot go with nouns, so we cannot say:
too books, too paper
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