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# instead — English to Ukrainian

How English *instead* is translated into Ukrainian in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [instead in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/instead/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: instead (68). By style: everyday 39 · biblical 29.

## замість

Used about 44 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · biblical ≈ 17).

- Tom went **instead** of Mary.
  Том пішов **замість** Мері.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#4700118](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4700118) [\#5835187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5835187))

- “‘“Adulterous wife, who takes strangers **instead** of her husband!
  Але була перелюбною жінкою, що **замість** свого мужа, приймала чужих.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 16:32)

- I eat honey **instead** of sugar.
  Я їм мед **замість** цукру.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#8784160](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8784160) [\#10853696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10853696))

- let briers grow **instead** of wheat, and stinkweed **instead** of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
  То нехай **замість** пшеницї росте в мене осетий, а замість ячменю — кукіль! І скінчились слова Йовові.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 31:40)

- Tom went there **instead** of me.
  Том пішов туди **замість** мене.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#3618708](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3618708) [\#7797982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7797982))

## намість

Used about 6 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 6).

- Now, LORD my God, you have made your servant king **instead** of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.
  Оце ж, Господи, Боже мій, вчинив єси раба твого **намість** отця мого Давида царем; але я ще молодик і не знаю нї виходу, нї ввіходу;
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 3:7)

- Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king **instead** of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
  **Намість** Ехонїї Йоакименка царював Седекія Йосієнко, що його Навуходонозор, царь Вавилонський, настановив царем над землею Юдейською.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 37:1)

- Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually **instead** of Joab.’”
  Та й Амазї скажіте: Ти ж моє тїло й кість моя. Нехай Бог удїє зо мною що схоче, коли не будеш у мене, поки жив, **намість** Йоаба гетьманом!
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 19:13)

- For the LORD says touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned **instead** of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: “He won’t return there any more.
  Так бо говорить Господь про Саллума Йосієнка, царя Юдейського, що царював **намість** отця свого, Йосії, що відходить у полонь, бо він уже не вернеться сюди,
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 22:11)

- Absalom set Amasa over the army **instead** of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
  **Намість** Йоаба настановив Абессалом Амессая головою в війську. Амессай був сином одного чоловіка, що звавсь Ефера з Езрееля, що ввійшов був до Абигеї, дочки Нааса, а сестри Саруїної, матері Йоабової.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 17:25)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- People have a hard time admitting they have prejudices because it's viewed as a bad thing about a person **instead** of a social problem we've inherited.
  Людям важко визнати, що вони мають упередження, тому що це вважається якоюсь поганою рисою людини, а не соціальною проблемою, яку ми успадкували.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#11585523](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11585523) [\#11585535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11585535))

- I never use plastic bags when I go shopping. I always carry a basket, **instead**.
  Я ніколи не використовую пластикові пакети, коли ходжу по магазинах. Натомість я завжди ношу кошик.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DJ\_Saidez and Ahha · checked, community translation · [\#10151222](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10151222) [\#10154138](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10154138))

- Aren't you glad we're here **instead** of Boston?
  Хіба ти не радий, що ми всі тут, а не в Бостоні?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#6078602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6078602) [\#6079301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6079301))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [Ukrainian grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/uk/) · [translating between English and Ukrainian](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-uk/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into Ukrainian](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-uk/).

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