Translation
instead of, in place of
Examples
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I will come instead of my brother.
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Instead of working, he slept the whole day.
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He answered instead of her.
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Instead of staying at home, we went to the sea.
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Now she lives in a village instead of in a big town.
is one of the few prepositions that takes a bare infinitive: , with no and no -i gymnastics. That alone makes it worth memorising. The other thing to watch is case. What follows normally stands in the nominative, but if the word it replaces was an object, mirroring the case keeps you clear: ŝin. Where a preposition was involved, simply repeat it, as in the village example above. The verb anstataŭi means to replace, and anstataŭanto is a stand-in or deputy.
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