jmdict 2127610 Active (id#2276588)
足るを知る
【 たるをしる 】
  1. [exp,v5r] [id]
    • to know one has enough
    • to be satisfied with one's lot in life
    Cross references:
    • ⇐ see: 2833952 足るを知る者は富む【たるをしるものはとむ】 1. content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold
Conjugations
History:
    • A 2023-09-08 22:42:55 Jim Breen (id#2276588)
    • A* 2023-09-08 21:36:33 Stephen Kraus (id#2276586)
    • Refs
      Over 6% of usages in the n-grams are inflected forms

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 足るを知る　　　　 │ 22,823 │ 93.4% │
│ 足るを知って　　　 │    461 │  1.9% │
│ 足るを知らない　　 │    424 │  1.7% │
│ 足るを知れば　　　 │    362 │  1.5% │
│ 足るを知らず　　　 │    144 │  0.6% │
│ 足るを知らぬ　　　 │    111 │  0.5% │
│ 足るを知った　　　 │     64 │  0.3% │
│ 足るを知らなければ │     58 │  0.2% │
╰─ーーーーーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<pos>&v5r;</pos>
    • A 2010-08-22 01:13:59 Rene Malenfant
    • Comments
      most idioms do not need to conjugate, just like you wouldn't say 'red sky at night, sailors delighted; red sky in morning, sailors took warning'
    • Diff
      @@ -12,1 +12,1 @@
-<pos>&v5r;</pos>
+<misc>&id;</misc>
    • A* 2010-08-20 17:26:08 Scott
    • Diff
      @@ -12,0 +12,1 @@
+<pos>&v5r;</pos>
    • A 2007-01-21 00:00:00
    • Comments
      Entry created
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