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Finnish
- 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
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.
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