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assez

French, adverb/a.se/

assez is a French adverb meaning “to a sufficient or moderate degree; enough; sufficiently” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Suffisamment, d'une quantité adéquate, suffisante ou tolérable”.

What does assez mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    to a sufficient or moderate degree; enough; sufficiently

    Ce livre est assez intéressant pour que je veuille lire la suite.

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adverb: 1. Suffisamment, d'une quantité adéquate, suffisante ou tolérable. 2. Suffisamment nombreux. Une quantité suffisante de. 3. Particulièrement. 4. Relativement, passablement.

interjection: 1. S’emploie pour demander avec exaspération à son interlocuteur de s’arrêter.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How do you pronounce assez?

  • /a.se/
  • /a.se.z‿/
  • \a.se\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to assez

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is assez in French?

assez appears 324 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).