Translingual[edit]Alternative forms[edit]
Letter[edit]s (upper case S) Show
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Other representations of S: English[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S, plural ss or s's)
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Number[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
Noun[edit]s
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Afar[edit]Letter[edit]s
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Alemannic German[edit]Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]From Middle High German daz, from Old High German daz, from Proto-Germanic *þat, from Proto-Indo-European *tód, nominative and accusative singular neuter of *só. Cognate with German das, Dutch dat, English that, Icelandic það. Article[edit]s n
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Azerbaijani[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s lower case (upper case S)
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Basque[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Czech[edit]Etymology[edit]From Old Czech s, from Proto-Slavic *sъ(n). Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]s
Usage notes[edit]This preposition is followed by the instrumental case (7th case of the Czech grammatical system). Synonyms[edit]
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Dutch[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Egyptian[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]m
Inflection[edit]Declension of s (masculine) Noun[edit]m
Inflection[edit]Declension of s (masculine) Noun[edit]m
Inflection[edit]Declension of s (masculine) Alternative forms[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of s
Noun[edit]m
Pronoun[edit]f sg 3. enclitic (‘dependent’) pronoun
Pronoun[edit]m sg 3. enclitic (‘dependent’) pronoun
Alternative forms[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of s Romanization[edit]s
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Esperanto[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Estonian[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
Noun[edit]s
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Faroese[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (upper case S)
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Finnish[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Noun[edit]s
French[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Fula[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Gothic[edit]Romanization[edit]s
Hungarian[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Conjunction[edit]s
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Letter[edit]s
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Ido[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (upper case S)
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Italian[edit]Letter[edit]s m or f (invariable)
Japanese[edit]Etymology[edit]Short of さん (san). Suffix[edit]s(さん) • (-san)
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Latvian[edit]Etymology[edit]Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic. Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Livonian[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (upper case S)
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Malay[edit]Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Maltese[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Mòcheno[edit]Etymology 1[edit]From Middle High German ëz, iz, from Old High German iz, from Proto-West Germanic *it, from Proto-Germanic *it, nominative/accusative singular neuter of *iz. Cognate with German es. Pronoun[edit]s
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Etymology 2[edit]From Middle High German daz, from Old High German daz, from Proto-Germanic *þat. Cognate with German das, English that. Article[edit]s (masculine der, feminine de, plural de)
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Norwegian[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s
Nupe[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Polish[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (upper case S, lower case)
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Portuguese[edit]Etymology 1[edit]Pronunciation[edit]Letter name: (esse)
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Etymology 2[edit]Alternative forms[edit]
Adverb[edit]s
Noun[edit]s m (plural ss)
Interjection[edit]s
Etymology 3[edit]Noun[edit]s m (uncountable)
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Romani[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Romanian[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Saanich[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s
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Serbo-Croatian[edit]Etymology 1[edit]See Translingual section. Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (Cyrillic spelling с)
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Etymology 2[edit]From Proto-Slavic *sъ(n), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱom. Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]s (Cyrillic spelling с)
Usage notes[edit]s takes the alternative form sa in the following environments:
Etymology 3[edit]Shortening of srednji rod. Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]s (Cyrillic spelling с)
Skolt Sami[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (upper case S)
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Slovak[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]s (+ instrumental)
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Slovene[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]s
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Spanish[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Swedish[edit]Noun[edit]s
Turkish[edit]Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Turkmen[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (upper case S)
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Yoruba[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Zulu[edit]Letter[edit]s (lower case, upper case S)
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Which letter is s?S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
When was the letter s invented?The long s can be traced back to Roman times, when the lowercase s typical took an elongated form in cursive writing (opens in new tab) in Latin. According to librarians at the New York Academy of Medicine (opens in new tab), people were using the long s at the beginning and middle of words by the 12th century.
How many types of s are there?ſ — long s, medial s, or descending s.
What letter is T in the alphabet?Letters in the alphabet:. |