innan

innan as a conjunction

innan as a preposition

innan in a sentence

• dagen innan
  the day before
• Jag hade varit där kvällen innan.
  I had been there the night before.
• innanlår
  inner thigh
• innandöme
  interior, bowels
• innanmäte
  insides, innards, guts
• Jag känner honom utan och innan.
  I know him inside out. (literally, “outside and inside.”)
• det dröjde länge innan han kom
  it took a long time before he came
• Ring mig innan du åker!
  Call me before you leave!
• innan jul
  before Christmas
• innan dess
  before that (happens)

Questions

Similar words

före

Where the course teaches it

• Telling the time in Swedish with klockan
  Complete Swedish – Season 2
• Swedish verbs for love, hate and like
  Complete Swedish – Season 2
• Swedish adjectives made from past participles
  Complete Swedish – Season 2
• Träffa versus möta: two ways to meet in Swedish
  Complete Swedish – Season 2
• Eftersom versus på grund av: because in Swedish
  Complete Swedish – Season 2

Origin

From Old Swedish innan, from Old Norse innan, from Proto-Norse ᛁᚾᚨᚾᚨ (inana), from Proto-Germanic *innanē.

Nearby common words

innan is number 198 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

• 194precis exactly, precisely
• 195många many
• 196klara take care of, get done
• 197gång time, walk
• 199deras theirs, their
• 200inga nobody, none
• 201under beneath, under
• 202sån eye dialect spelling of sådan