The function word itself can be modified by a degree modifier, as in the following example:

Here the word knap ‘just’ indicates that the sufficient degree limit almost doesn’t apply.

The degree limit can be correlated with a proposition which is true above the degree limit, and untrue below it. An example is given below:

Here the degree limit makes a binary division in the quantity of yeast, and this quantitative division correlates with the affirmation or negation of the rising of the dough. Thus this construction involves a correlation between two degree stretches and two contrary states of affairs.

In this respect, it is closely related to the excessive construction. In fact, they are each other’s mirror image. The sufficient construction correlates the degree stretch above the degree limit with an affirmative proposition (‘if it is enough, then a state of affairs holds’), whereas the excessive construction correlates the degree stretch above the degree limit with the negation of the proposition (‘if it is too much, a state of affairs no longer holds’). This is intuitively clear from the synonimity of the two phrases: tou min ‘too little’ and nit genough ‘not enough’.

In example (3) above, the correlative proposition was expressed in an independent clause. It can also be expressed in a pronominal PP, as in the following example:

The correlative proposition can also be expressed in an infinitival clause. An example has been given below:

This example is somewhat idiomatic. In the following example, the correlative infinitival clause has been preposed:

These examples also make it clear that the sufficient construction does not only apply to degree stretches expressed as adjectives, but also to temporal stretches, expressed by a noun like Tied ‘time’. Infinitives are usually controlled by the subject of the main clause, as in the last two examples above.

However, if there is an argument affected by the sufficient construction, then it may control the infinitival clause as well. Consider the following example:

Here the object argument functions as an evaluator argument controlling the subject of the infinitive. The following example likewise features an evaluator argument:

The correlative proposition is not expressed in an infinitive, but suggested by the final phrase to be the subject’s functioning as a guarantor.