# innan
## Classical Nahuatl
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈíː.nːaːn]

### Noun

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

## Faroese
### Etymology

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

### Preposition

innan
* (with accusative) inside
* (with accusative) before

## Icelandic
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪnːan/
    Rhymes: -ɪnːan

### Adverb

innan (not comparable)
* inside, on the inside, within

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

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

### Preposition

innan
* before, within
    Du lyt levera papira innan fristen i morgon.You must hand in the papers before the deadline tomorrow.
* inside, within

#### Derived terms

* innanfor
* innanlandsk

### See also

* innen (Bokmål)

### References

* “innan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Etymology

A variant of inne

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈin.nɑn/

### Adverb

innan
* within

#### Descendants

* Middle English: innen

### Preposition

innan
* within

## Old Norse
### Etymology

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

### Adverb

innan
* from within, from an internal part
* internally, within

#### Descendants

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

### Preposition

innan
* within [with genitive]

### Further reading

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

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

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

### Preposition

innan
* within

### Adverb

innan
* inside
* indoors

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²ɪnan/
* Audio:(file)

### Conjunction

innan
* before (earlier than in time)

### Preposition

innan
* (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: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.

#### Usage notes

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.

### Adverb

innan (not comparable)
* before
    Jag hade varit där kvällen innanI had been there the night before
* (in some expressions and compounds) on the inside, inner
    Antonym: utan
    innanlår ― inner thigh
    innandöme ― interior, inside, bowels
    innanmäte ― interior, innards, guts

### References

* ↑ Är före och innan helt utbytbara?. Frågelådan. Swedish Language Council.
* innan in Svensk ordbok (SO)