5.9 Enough, too




Compare the use of enough (suficiente) and too (demasiado) with adjectives, adverbs and nouns:



Adjectives

Adverbs

Countable nouns

Uncountable nouns

big enough
clever enough

quickly enough
well enough

enough books

enough paper

too big
too clever

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




For too, see also so, too, neither/nor, either.