Sentence examples of "instead of" in English with translation "statt"

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I learned French instead of German. Ich habe Französisch statt Deutsch gelernt.

Instead of complaining, maybe you should help. Statt zu klagen, solltest du vielleicht helfen.

I spent yesterday reading instead of going out. Ich habe den gestrigen Tag mit Lesen verbracht statt rauszugehen.

Instead of watching television, the children played outside. Statt fernzusehen, spielten die Kinder draußen.

I chose to leave instead of staying behind. Ich entschied mich, zu gehen, statt zu bleiben.

Let's go by train instead of by bus. Lass uns mit der Bahn statt dem Bus fahren.

Tom resented the fact that Mary got the promotion instead of hm. Tom ärgerte sich darüber, dass Maria statt seiner die Beförderung zuteil geworden war.

The slogan for the day against extremism was, "multicolored instead of brown". Das Motto für den Antiextremismus-Tag war „bunt statt braun“ .

The data suggest that the optimum length of a lecture may be 30 instead of 60 minutes. Die Sachverhalte deuten an, dass die optimale Dauer einer Vorlesung 30 statt 60 Minuten wäre.

About the wedding ... It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be the main attraction so instead of doing it on a shoestring why not pull out all the stops and make a great show of it? Was die Hochzeit betrifft... Das ist eine nie mehr wiederkehrende Chance, im Mittelpunkt zu stehen. Deshalb, statt mit ein paar Groschen auszukommen versuchen, warum nicht alle Register ziehen und eine große Vorstellung geben?

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