Polyglot Dictionary

statt

/ʃtat/

preposition A2

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

Prep Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. instead of

    Governs the genitive: "statt des Autos" (instead of the car); the root behind stattdessen and anstatt.

Similar words

anstatt

anstatt and statt are close synonyms for "instead of"; statt is the shorter, more common colloquial form.

Similar in other languages

French

au lieu de

au lieu de is the French word for the same thing — both mean "instead of."

Practice

1 What does statt mean?

2 Fill the gap: ___ Kaffee trank sie Tee.

See also

preposition

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