A2Grammargenitive case

anstatt / statt

instead of

In German

anstatt / statt

an-shtat / shtat
🇬🇧 English
instead of
🇪🇸 Español
en lugar de, en vez de
🇮🇹 Italiano
invece di

Common Phrases

Anstatt zu arbeiten
Instead of working
Stattdessen lieber
Rather instead
Anstatt der Arbeit
Instead of work

Example Sentences

1

Anstatt des Kaffees trank ich Tee.

Instead of coffee, I drank tea.

genitive
2

Statt seiner Schwester kam sein Bruder.

Instead of his sister, his brother came.

genitive
3

Sie liest ein Buch anstatt der Zeitung.

She is reading a book instead of the newspaper.

genitive

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