Skip to content

abbastanza

enough

adverb ahb-bahs-TAHN-tsah Less Common

Origin: from Old French 'a bastance', sufficiently

Also means

quite

Usage Note

Abbastanza means both 'enough' and, softened, 'quite/fairly', as in abbastanza bene. It is invariable and goes after the verb, ho mangiato abbastanza, but before an adjective.

Examples

"Ho dormito abbastanza stanotte."

Natural Translation

I slept enough last night.

Literal Translation

I-have slept enough tonight.

Explore Italian by topic