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at the end of a syllable or before a consonant, so long as is the end of the word stem: muß, faßt, wäßrig. [ 10 ] : 176 In the old orthography, word stems spelled ss internally could thus be written ß in certain instances, without this reflecting a change in vowel length: küßt (from küssen ), faßt (from fassen ), verläßlich and ...
when part of the -chen diminutive of a word ending on s , (e.g. Mäuschen "little mouse") [sç] ss [s] ß [s] t [t] Silent at the end of loanwords from French (although spelling may be otherwise Germanized: Debüt, Eklat, Kuvert, Porträt) th [t] Used in words of Ancient Greek origin and in some proper names. ti: otherwise [ti]
"Put the accents and cedillas on French names and words, umlauts on German ones, accents and tildes on Spanish ones, and accents, cedillas and tildes on Portuguese ones: Françoise de Panafieu, Wolfgang Schäuble, Federico Peña. Leave the accents off other foreign names. Any foreign word in italics should, however, be given its proper accents."
at the end of (non-abbreviated) words: e.g. das Haus, der Kosmos, des Bundes, das Pils (however: im Hauſe, die Häuſer, das Pilſener) at the end of prefixes, as a connecting s and in compounds at the end of the first part-word, even if the following part-word begins with a long ſ:
at the end of the alphabet (as in Swedish or in extended ASCII). Microsoft Windows in German versions offers the choice between the first two variants in its internationalisation settings. Eszett is sorted as though it were ss. Occasionally it is treated as s, but this is generally considered incorrect. It is not used at all in Switzerland.
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Since a trailing -ss does not occur in the traditional orthography (which uses -ß instead), the -ss at the end of reformed words like dass and muss (previously muß) is now the only quick and sure sign to indicate that the reformed spelling has been used, even if just partly, in texts (except those of Swiss origin). All other changes are ...
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