enää
Finnish
Alternative forms
- enään (dialectal, nonstandard)
Etymology
Either from the partitive singular of (dialectal) enä, or alternatively from enä + -ki(n), through reduction (*enä-ɣi(k) > enäi > enää); the clitic -kin (from earlier *-ɣik) may have developed a comparative sense.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈenæː/, [ˈe̞næː]
- Rhymes: -enæː
- Syllabification(key): e‧nää
Adverb
enää
- (chiefly in the negative) any more, any longer
- Kylässä ei ole enää hotellia.
- There is no hotel in the village any more.
- (now/nowadays ...) only, merely, just, solely (when there used to be more)
- Saan enää vain harvoin kirjeitä.
- Nowadays I get letters only rarely.
- Tarvitaan enää pientä hiomista.
- Now it just needs some finishing work.
See also
Further reading
- “enää”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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