"enää" meaning in Finnish

See enää in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: /ˈenæː/, [ˈe̞næː] Forms: enään [alternative, dialectal, nonstandard]
Rhymes: -enæː 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. Etymology templates: {{suf|fi|enä|kin|alt2=ki(n)}} enä + -ki(n) Head templates: {{head|fi|adverbs|||||||||f1accel-form=comparative|f2accel-form=comparative|f3accel-form=superlative|f4accel-form=superlative|head=|sort=}} enää, {{fi-adv}} enää
  1. (chiefly in the negative) any more, any longer
    Sense id: en-enää-fi-adv-U-thvszU Categories (other): Finnish negative polarity items, Finnish entries with incorrect language header, Finnish negative polarity items, Finnish terms suffixed with -kin, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Finnish entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of Finnish negative polarity items: 95 5 Disambiguation of Finnish terms suffixed with -kin: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 95 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 96 4
  2. (now/nowadays ...) only, merely, just, solely (when there used to be more)
    Sense id: en-enää-fi-adv-jCkoyVor
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: enempi, enämpi, enin, enintään, enetä, ani

Alternative forms

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