To Be Sufficient, To Suffice
Intransitive verb and Ichidan verb
たりる
これだけで、足りるのかな。
I wonder if this much will be enough.
モナコの王女はせけんしらずなので、車をかうのに十万円もあれば足りるとおもっている。
Because the princess in Monaco is ignorant to most things, she thinks that 100,000 yen is enough to buy a car.
今夜、ワインコルクで何か工作をするのに足りるだけのワインを飲むことを誓います。
I vow to drink enough wine to make something crafty with the corks tonight.
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means leg and sufficient. Of course, sufficient is the one we're going to go for, because you can't really "do foot" but you can "be sufficient." What's another word for this? To be enough.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you to remember the た portion. Whenever we need to remember the た we use the word "taco."
What do you have enough of? What is sufficient? Turns out it's tacos (た). Your bunker is filled with them and it's going to be enough to last the winter.