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Basic German: A Grammar and Workbook - mercaba.org

The German alphabet has some characters which do not exist in the English alphabet: ß – the sharp ‘s’ The letter ß, called eszett in German, is pronounced like the normal English ‘s’, for example in ‘sun’ or ‘basic’. German uses this letter for instance after ei and ie, and after a, o, u if they are pronounced long: heißen ...