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German preposition · CEFR B1

statt

Meaning in English: instead of

Rank 190 of 5,000prepositionLevel B1
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Heute trinke ich Tee statt Kaffee.

Today I'm drinking tea instead of coffee.

How common is statt?

statt is number 190 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 452 times per million words — about once every 2,200 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 50% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 186wollento want (to)
  2. 187besondersespecially, particularly
  3. 188diesenthis (acc. masc.); these (dat.)
  4. 189alleseverything, all
  5. 190stattinstead of
  6. 191allenall (dative plural)
  7. 192wowhere
  8. 193die Arbeitwork, job
  9. 194Fragenquestions

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