innan

• IPA^(key): [ˈíː.nːaːn]

īnnān (animate)

1. third-person plural possessive singular of nāntli; (she is) their mother.

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

innan

1. (with accusative) inside
2. (with accusative) before

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnːan/

  Rhymes: -ɪnːan

innan (not comparable)

1. inside, on the inside, within

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

innan

1. before, within

   Du lyt levera papira innan fristen i morgon.

   You must hand in the papers before the deadline tomorrow.

2. inside, within

• innanfor
• innanlandsk

• innen (Bokmål)

• “innan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

A variant of inne

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.nɑn/

innan

1. within
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     þonne hē be clifum cnossað. · Calde ġeþrungen
     wǣron mīne fēt, · forste ġebunden,
     caldum clommum, · þǣr þā ċeare sēofedun.
     Hāt ymb heortan · hungor innan slāt
     merewērġes mōd. · Þæt sē mon ne wāt

     then it beats near cliffs. My feet were
     squeezed by cold, bound by frost,
     with cold fetters, when there we bemoaned
     sorrows. Hot about heart, hunger within tore
     a sea-weary mind. The man didn't know that,

• Middle English: innen

innan

1. within

From Proto-Norse ᛁᚾᚨᚾᚨ (inana), from Proto-Germanic *innanē, akin to inn +‎ -an.

innan

1. from within, from an internal part
2. internally, within

• Icelandic: innan
• Faroese: innan
• Norwegian Nynorsk: innan
• Old Swedish: innan
  • Swedish: innan
• Danish: inden
  • Norwegian Bokmål: innen

innan

1. within [with genitive]

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “innan”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-West Germanic *innanā, from Proto-Germanic *innanē.

innan

1. within

innan

1. inside
2. indoors

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

• IPA^(key): /²ɪnan/

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innan

1. before (earlier than in time)

innan

1. (sometimes proscribed) before (earlier than in time)
   • 2011, Daniel Kederstedt, “En uppgörelse som kom i grevens tid [An agreement in the nick of time]”, in Svenska Dagbladet‎^[1]:

     Utfallet spelar troligtvis mindre roll då politikerna fortsätter att försöka hamra fram det kompromissförslag som förhoppningsvis kan klubbas igenom innan måndagen.

     The outcome is likely to play a less important role as politicians continue to try to hammer out the compromise proposal that hopefully can be pushed through before Monday.

A normative rule in Swedish has earlier been that innan is a subjunction and must be followed by a subordinate clause, whereas före is the prepositional equivalent, except for a few fixed expressions. However, the usage of innan as a temporal preposition is now accepted.^[1]

innan (not comparable)

1. before

   Jag hade varit där kvällen innan

   I had been there the night before

2. (in some expressions and compounds) on the inside, inner

   Antonym: utan

   innanlår ― inner thigh

   innandöme ― interior, inside, bowels

   innanmäte ― interior, innards, guts

• innan in Svensk ordbok (SO)