Enempää

Enempää is a Finnish adverb used mainly in negative clauses to express that a quantity exceeds the allowed or available amount. It is commonly translated into English as no more or further. In everyday speech, it appears in phrases such as Ei enempää, meaning no more, and Meillä ei enempää aikaa, meaning we have no more time. The form is generally associated with limiting or stopping a process rather than indicating an increase.

In positive contexts, Finnish typically uses the word enemmän to mean more rather than enempää; therefore enempää is not normally used to convey the sense of “additional” in affirmative statements. The word is a fixed expression in many common constructions and can appear with nouns referring to counts, time, resources, or opportunities.

Etymology and grammar notes are often omitted from casual references, but enempää is broadly understood as the negated counterpart related to the comparative idea of more. It functions as a standalone unit in concise phrases and tends to be more frequent in spoken Finnish and informal writing than in formal prose.

See also: Finnish language, enemmistä or enemmän (comparative forms in Finnish, used for “more” in affirmative contexts).