Knowing relations between words can help understand their meanings and build a more connected vocabulary network. Here, you can explore parents and offspring and discover the whole family.
- shows how many children or parents the word has
- get the translations and a link
Loading word family…
Sources for Etymology:
- Check "stattdessen" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "stattdessen" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
Audio Speed
Dark Mode
Is the word a bit formal or normal everyday german?
Also the example looks strange to me -is the ommision of bin deliberate? I’ve heard it can be a thing to omit sein but i think i only encountered it once. Is this an example of that?
Ich hab nicht den Bus genommen, und ich stattdessen gelaufen.
It does feel a bit “formal”. I don’t use it much in daily life, and I think I would phrase things with “sondern”, but it’s not completely absurd to use it in spoken German either.
Skipping “bin”… I don’t think that’s a thing (unless you’re listing verbs in past)
– Ich bin um 7 aufgestanden und dann mit dem Auto zur Arbeit gefahren.
My example was wrong, I meant to skip “ich” and have “bin” there.
I encountered it once in this poem by Christian Morgenstern, which i think I think we spoke about once. If i understand correctly think the third line omits “war”. MAybe the rules are different cus its poetry..
Der Wolf erhob sich tränenblind —
er hatte ja doch Weib und Kind!!
Doch da er kein Gelehrter eben,
so schied er dankend und ergeben.
Yes, it’s the famous double standards of poetry :)