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The apostrophe is also used to mark the genitive for words that end in an -s sound: words ending in -s, -x, and -z, some speakers also including words ending in the sound . As Norwegian does not form the plural with -s, there is no need to distinguish between an -s forming the possessive and the -s forming the plural.
The possessive form of an English noun, or more generally a noun phrase, is made by suffixing a morpheme which is represented orthographically as ' s (the letter s preceded by an apostrophe), and is pronounced in the same way as the regular English plural ending (e)s: namely, as / ɪ z / when following a sibilant sound (/ s /, / z /, / ʃ /, / ʒ /, / tʃ / or / dʒ /), as / s / when following ...
For plural nouns that do not end in s, add an apostrophe and an s to form the possessive, for example, children's, not childrens'. Kaldari 03:19, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) How about getting to the point more quickly, like this: "Possessives of words ending in 's' may be formed with or without an additional 's'." Either is generally acceptable within ...
's may refer to: 's, an ending used to form the possessive of English nouns and noun phrases 's, a contraction of the English words is and has 's, a form of the English plural ending, written after single letters and in some other instances Greengrocers' apostrophes, a non-standard manner to form noun plurals
Also, please use proper stress ˈ and length ː marks (available at the bottom of your edit window) rather than the non-IPA shortcuts of apostrophe ' and colon : ; depending on the reader's font preferences, the latter can be ambiguous.
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The round s is used: 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:
Certain words, like piñata, jalapeño and quinceañera, are usually kept intact. In many instances the ñ is replaced with the plain letter n. In words of German origin (e.g. doppelgänger), the letters with umlauts ä, ö, ü may be written ae, oe, ue. [14] This could be seen in many newspapers during World War II, which printed Fuehrer for ...