diff --git a/stdlib/dataclasses.pyi b/stdlib/dataclasses.pyi
index 04ae771fc064..560147f9e96b 100644
--- a/stdlib/dataclasses.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/dataclasses.pyi
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import types
 from builtins import type as Type  # alias to avoid name clashes with fields named "type"
 from collections.abc import Callable, Iterable, Mapping
 from typing import Any, Generic, Protocol, TypeVar, overload
-from typing_extensions import Literal
+from typing_extensions import Literal, TypeAlias
 
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 9):
     from types import GenericAlias
@@ -217,7 +217,14 @@ def is_dataclass(obj: Any) -> bool: ...
 
 class FrozenInstanceError(AttributeError): ...
 
-class InitVar(Generic[_T]):
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 9):
+    _InitVarMeta: TypeAlias = type
+else:
+    class _InitVarMeta(type):
+        # Not used, instead `InitVar.__class_getitem__` is called.
+        def __getitem__(self, params: Any) -> InitVar[Any]: ...
+
+class InitVar(Generic[_T], metaclass=_InitVarMeta):
     type: Type[_T]
     def __init__(self, type: Type[_T]) -> None: ...
     if sys.version_info >= (3, 9):
diff --git a/stdlib/string.pyi b/stdlib/string.pyi
index 5a79e9e76752..6fb803fe53be 100644
--- a/stdlib/string.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/string.pyi
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from _typeshed import StrOrLiteralStr
 from collections.abc import Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
 from re import Pattern, RegexFlag
 from typing import Any, ClassVar, overload
-from typing_extensions import LiteralString
+from typing_extensions import LiteralString, TypeAlias
 
 __all__ = [
     "ascii_letters",
@@ -32,7 +32,14 @@ whitespace: LiteralString
 
 def capwords(s: StrOrLiteralStr, sep: StrOrLiteralStr | None = ...) -> StrOrLiteralStr: ...
 
-class Template:
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 9):
+    _TemplateMetaclass: TypeAlias = type
+else:
+    class _TemplateMetaclass(type):
+        pattern: ClassVar[str]
+        def __init__(cls, name: str, bases: tuple[type, ...], dct: dict[str, Any]) -> None: ...
+
+class Template(metaclass=_TemplateMetaclass):
     template: str
     delimiter: ClassVar[str]
     idpattern: ClassVar[str]