Utgifterna får inte öka mer.

Utgifterna means the expenses or the expenditures.

It is one word because Swedish usually attaches the definite article to the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like English the.

Breakdown:

• utgift = an expense
• utgifter = expenses
• utgifterna = the expenses

So the ending -na shows that the noun is both plural and definite.

Because Swedish normally marks definiteness directly on the noun.

So:

• utgifter = expenses
• utgifterna = the expenses

You can say de utgifterna, but then de is usually adding extra emphasis, like those expenses or those particular expenses, not just ordinary the expenses.

That is a very common question. Få can mean get, but it can also be a modal verb.

Here, får does not mean gets. It means something like:

• may
• is allowed to
• in natural English in this kind of sentence, often must

So Utgifterna får inte öka mer means:

• The expenses may not increase any more
• more naturally in many contexts: The expenses must not increase any more

So yes, får is from få, but here it is being used in its modal sense, not its get/receive sense.

Because literal English and natural English are not always the same.

Literally:

• får inte = may not / is not allowed to

But in many real situations, especially rules, budgets, and instructions, English speakers often say:

• must not

So the Swedish sentence has the sense of prohibition or not being allowed. In English, must not often sounds more natural than may not.

Because in a Swedish main clause, the finite verb usually comes first or second, and sentence adverbs like inte normally come after that finite verb.

Here:

• Utgifterna = subject
• får = finite verb
• inte = not
• öka = infinitive
• mer = more / any more / further

So the normal order is:

• Utgifterna får inte öka mer.

This is a very important Swedish word-order pattern.

Because får is a modal verb, and modal verbs in Swedish are followed by the bare infinitive.

So:

• får öka = may increase / is allowed to increase

Not:

• får att öka ❌

This is similar to English:

• must increase
• can increase

not:

• must to increase ❌

Öka means increase.

In this sentence it is intransitive, meaning the subject itself increases:

• Utgifterna ökar = The expenses increase / are increasing

You are not increasing something else here. The expenses themselves are going up.

Here mer means more, but in natural English this sentence is often translated as:

• any more
• further

So öka mer means:

• increase more
• increase any more
• increase further

In this sentence, mer gives the idea of additional increase beyond the current level.

No, that would be a different idea.

• mer = more / any more / further
• längre = longer / any longer

So:

• inte öka mer = not increase any more / not increase further
• inte öka längre would suggest not continue increasing any longer, which is related but not exactly the same and is less natural here.

In a budgeting sentence, mer is the expected word.

It is plural.

Forms:

• en utgift = an expense
• utgiften = the expense
• utgifter = expenses
• utgifterna = the expenses

So the sentence is talking about multiple expenses or overall expenditures.

No. They are different.

• får inte = may not / must not / is not allowed to
• kan inte = cannot / is not able to / is not possible

Compare:

• Utgifterna får inte öka mer. = The expenses must not increase any more.
• Utgifterna kan inte öka mer. = The expenses cannot increase any more.

The first is about permission, rules, or limits. The second is about possibility or ability.

In a subordinate clause, inte usually comes before the finite verb.

Main clause:

• Utgifterna får inte öka mer.

Subordinate clause:

• ... att utgifterna inte får öka mer.
• ... because the expenses must not increase any more

So this sentence is useful for seeing the difference between:

• main clause: verb before inte
• subordinate clause: inte before the finite verb

Yes. That is a good alternative.

• mer = more / any more
• ytterligare = further / additionally

So:

• Utgifterna får inte öka mer
• Utgifterna får inte öka ytterligare

Both are correct. Ytterligare is a bit more formal or administrative in tone, while mer is simpler and very common.