Swedish conjunction· top 1,000 most common

förrän

before/ˈfœrɛn/

Meaning

before

In Swedish: innan

Practise förrän

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What does förrän mean?

förrän in a sentence

  • jag kan inte komma förrän i morgon
    I cannot come before (until) tomorrow
  • Du får inte gå förrän du gjort klart allt arbete.
    You can not go until you have finished all work.
  • The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.
    Shakespeare, Sonnet 148
  • If music be the food of love, play on; / Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken, and so die.
    Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, opening lines

Questions

What does förrän mean in English?

förrän means “before”.

Origin

förr + än (“yet”).

Nearby common words

förrän is number 727 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Recording: Wikimedia Commons. Browse the dictionary