instead of

Etymology
From, , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Preposition

 * 1) In lieu of; in place of; rather than.

Usage notes

 * Instead of is always followed by a noun, pronoun or gerund.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: in plaas van
 * Albanian: në vend të, në vend që
 * Arabic: بَدَلًا مِن
 * Egyptian Arabic: بدل ما
 * Moroccan Arabic: فعوض ما
 * Assamese: -অৰ সলনি
 * Azerbaijani: əvəzinə, yerinə
 * Bashkir: урынына
 * Belarusian: заме́ст
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: en comptes de
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 而係， 反而
 * Mandarin: ，
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: i stedet for
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: selle asemel et, selmet
 * Finnish: sen sijaan että, sen sijaan,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: en vez de, en lugar de, en troques de
 * Georgian: ნაცვლად, მაგივრად
 * German: an Stelle von, anstelle von,, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀντί (+ genitive)
 * Hebrew: בִּמְקוֹם
 * Hindi: के बजाय
 * Hungarian:, ahelyett, hogy
 * Hunsrik: enstatt, statts
 * Icelandic: í staðin fyrir
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: mesto, sihas
 * Irish: in ionad, in áit
 * Italian: invece di, invece che,
 * Japanese: …の代わりに
 * Korean:
 * Latin: (+ ablative),
 * Macedonian: наместо, место
 * Norwegian:, i staden for,
 * Persian: به جای
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у̀мјесто, (Ijekavian), у̀место (Ekavian)
 * Roman: ùmjesto (Ijekavian), ùmesto (Ekavian)
 * Slovak: namiesto
 * Slovene: namesto
 * Spanish:, en vez de
 * Swedish: i stället för
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: за́мість, замі́сто
 * Urdu: کے بجاۓ
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: yn lle