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dayenu

dayenu phrase: it will (or would) have been sufficient.

Phrase

dayenu

  1. It will (or would) have been sufficient.
    • Harriet Meyer, president of Ounce of Prevention, remembers him saying, with a dollop of Hebrew, "If only we can build a place where kids from chaotic communities can have a predictable, responsive place for the next five years, then dayenu—that would be enough."2009, David L. Kirp, The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics
    • I have many more adventures planned for the year and I'm brimming. But if I get no farther down the road than this one extraordinary walk among the rivers of home, then dayenu, it will have been enough.2010, Kurt Hoelting, The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life

Origin of dayenu

Borrowed from Hebrew דַּיֵּנוּ (“it would have sufficed”): the title of a Passover song.

Questions about dayenu

What does dayenu mean?
Dayenu means it will (or would) have been sufficient.
What part of speech is dayenu?
Dayenu is a phrase.

Words near dayenu in the dictionary

  1. daydresses
  2. daye
  3. dayed
  4. dayee
  5. dayees
  6. dayenu
  7. dayer
  8. dayereh
  9. dayerehs
  10. dayers
  11. dayes

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