This is the 30th most frequent Finnish word.
ennen
"Ennen" means "before" in English.
In this sentence, 'ennen' is used as a preposition to indicate a time before another action or event.
Ennen kävelyä syömme aamiaisen.
Before the walk, we eat breakfast.
Here, 'ennen kuin' is a conjunction introducing a subordinate clause indicating the time point before which an action happened.
Menin nukkumaan ennen kuin oli liian myöhä.
I went to sleep before it was too late.
In this example, 'ennen' is used as an adverb to indicate a general earlier point in time.