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innan

Classical Nahuatl

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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īnnān (animate)

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

Faroese

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Etymology

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

Preposition

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innan

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

Icelandic

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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innan (not comparable)

  1. inside, on the inside, within

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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

Preposition

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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

Derived terms

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See also

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References

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Old English

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Etymology

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A variant of inne

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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innan

  1. within

Descendants

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  • Middle English: innen

Preposition

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innan

  1. within

Old Norse

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Etymology

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

Adverb

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innan

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

Descendants

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Preposition

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innan

  1. (with genitive) within

References

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  • “innan”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

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Etymology

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

Preposition

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innan

  1. within

Adverb

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innan

  1. inside
  2. indoors

Swedish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /²ɪnan/
  • Audio:(file)

Conjunction

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innan

  1. before (earlier than in time)

Preposition

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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.

Usage notes

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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]

Adverb

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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

References

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  1. ^ Är före och innan helt utbytbara?. Frågelådan. Swedish Language Council.
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