Modifies a noun

• coffee: I went inside the plane and found some little bags of ersatz coffee.

• version: Daytime boss Alison Sharman wants to find space for Loose Women, ITV's ersatz version of America's The View.

• culture: Is kitsch always recognizable as formulaic, superficial, as ' ersatz culture ' , as Clement Greenberg termed it?

• granddaughter: I was the ersatz granddaughter to all âthe girlsâ , I was the only continuation of the line.

• understanding: The ersatz metal originates, predictably enough, from an ersatz understanding of human freedom.