Prepositions taking the genitive case
The following prepositions are normally written with the genitive case in formal written German:
Notes
1. The preposition meaning "instead of" can either be written as "statt" or "anstatt".
2. You may also find the preposition "auf Grund" written as one word "aufgrund".
3. All of the above prepositions take the genitive in formal written German, but in conversational German you will often hear them used with the dative case. In Switzerland and Austria, "trotz" takes the dative case in formal written German as well as in conversational German.
