German adverb · CEFR B1
stattdessen
Meaning in English: instead
Example
Wir sind nicht geflogen, sondern stattdessen Zug gefahren.
We didn't fly; we took the train instead.
How common is stattdessen?
stattdessen is number 1,574 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 58 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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