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à la place

French, adverb/a la plas/

à la place is a French adverb meaning “instead” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does à la place mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    informalinstead

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How do you pronounce à la place?

  • /a la plas/

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to à la place

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.