Genitive prepositions

The most common genitive prepositions are:

: dank - thanks to
: statt, anstatt - instead of
: trotz - in spite of
: während - during, in the course of
: wegen - because of

Er kommt statt seines Bruders.
Wir spielen trotz des Wetters.
Ich arbeite während der Woche.
Sie schreiben wegen der Probleme. He comes instead of his brother.
We play in spite of the weather.
I work during the week.
They write because of the problems.