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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:
5. A 2023-09-08 22:42:55  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
4. A* 2023-09-08 21:36:33  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  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>
3. A 2010-08-22 01:13:59  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
  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>
2. A* 2010-08-20 17:26:08  Scott
  Diff:
@@ -12,0 +12,1 @@
+<pos>&v5r;</pos>
1. A 2007-01-21 00:00:00 
  Comments:
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