From Middle English in stede of, in stude of (“instead of”, literally “in stead of, in place of”), equivalent to in + stead + of. Cognate with Saterland Frisian insteede, ansteede (“instead of”), West Frisian ynstee (“instead of”), German anstatt (von) (“instead of”), Danish i stedet (“instead of”).
instead of
- In lieu of; in place of; rather than.
He walked to school instead of taking the car.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
in lieu of; in place of; rather than
- Afrikaans: in plaas van
- Albanian: në vend të, në vend që
- Arabic: بَدَلًا مِن (badalan min)
- Egyptian Arabic: بدل ما (badal ma)
- Moroccan Arabic: فعوض ما (f-ʕūṭ ma)
- Assamese: -অৰ সলনি (-or xoloni)
- Azerbaijani: əvəzinə, yerinə
- Bashkir: урынына (urınına)
- Belarusian: заме́ст (zamjést)
- Bengali: পরিবর্তে (bn) (poriborte)
- Bulgarian: вме́сто (bg) (vmésto)
- Catalan: en comptes de
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 而係／而系 (ji4 hai6)， 反而 (faan2 ji4)
- Mandarin: 而是 (zh) (ér shì)， 反而 (zh) (fǎn ér)
- Czech: namísto (cs), místo (cs)
- Danish: i stedet for
- Dutch: in plaats van (nl)
- Esperanto: anstataŭ (eo)
- Estonian: selle asemel et, selmet
- Finnish: sen sijaan että, sen sijaan, asemesta (fi)
- French: à la place de (fr), au lieu de (fr)
- Galician: en vez de, en lugar de, en troques de
- Georgian: ნაცვლად (nacvlad), მაგივრად (magivrad)
- German: an Stelle von, anstelle von, statt (de), anstatt (de), anstelle (de)
- Greek: αντί (el) (antí)
- Ancient: ἀντί (antí) (+ genitive)
- Hebrew: בִּמְקוֹם (bimkom)
- Hindi: के बजाय (ke bajāy)
- Hungarian: helyett (hu), (if a gerund is expressed with a verb form) ahelyett, hogy
- Hunsrik: enstatt, statts
- Icelandic: í staðin fyrir
- Ido: vice (io)
- Indonesian: alih-alih (id), bukannya (id)
- Ingrian: mesto, sihas
- Irish: in ionad, in áit
- Italian: invece di, invece che, anziché (it)
- Japanese: …の代わりに (…のかわりに, ... no kawari ni)
- Korean: ~ 대신에 (ko) (~ daesine)
- Latin: pro (la) (+ ablative), (genitive +) vice (la)
- Macedonian: наместо (namesto), место (mesto)
- Norwegian: istedenfor (no), i staden for, i stedet for (no)
- Persian: به جای (be jâ-ye)
- Polish: zamiast (pl)
- Portuguese: ao invés de (pt), em vez de (pt)
- Russian: вме́сто (ru) (vmésto), взаме́н (ru) (vzamén)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у̀мјесто, (Ijekavian), у̀место (Ekavian)
- Roman: ùmjesto (Ijekavian), ùmesto (Ekavian)
- Slovak: namiesto
- Slovene: namesto
- Spanish: en lugar de (es), en vez de
- Swedish: i stället för
- Telugu: బదులు (te) (badulu)
- Thai: แทน (th) (tɛɛn)
- Turkish: yerine (tr)
- Ukrainian: за́мість (zámistʹ), замі́сто (zamísto)
- Urdu: کے بجاۓ (ke bajāy)
- Vietnamese: thay vì (vi)
- Walloon: estô di (wa), el plaece di (wa)
- Welsh: yn lle
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