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suffire

to be enough

verb sü-FEER Common

Also means

to suffice

Usage Note

Suffire powers the everyday exclamation ça suffit ! (that's enough!) and the impersonal il suffit de plus an infinitive, meaning 'all you need to do is'. It is irregular — present tense je suffis — though its past participle is the short suffi.

Examples

"Ça suffit, arrêtez de vous disputer."

Natural Translation

That is enough, stop arguing.

Literal Translation

That suffices, stop yourselves from arguing.

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