s

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Letter s.svg
Unicode name LATIN SMALL LETTER S
Codepoint U+0073
 r ← Basic Latin → t 
See also Appendix:Variations of "s"

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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Letter

s lower case (upper case S)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
  2. Symbol for second, an SI unit of measurement of time.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Symbol

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s

  1. (IPA) voiceless alveolar fricative

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Other representations of S:

  • Letter styles

  • Capital and lowercase versions of S, in normal and italic type

  • Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

[edit] Pronunciation

  • (letter): IPA: /ɛs/ SAMPA: /Es/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /s/, /z/, /ʒ/
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[edit] Letter

s lowercase (uppercase S)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.
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[edit] Number

s lower case (upper case S)

  1. The ordinal number nineteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.

[edit] Abbreviation

s

  1. (metrology) abbreviation for the scruple (the apothecaries' system unit of mass)
  2. Alternative form of s..

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[edit] Azeri

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s lower case (upper case S)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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[edit] Czech

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Preposition

s

  1. with

[edit] Usage notes

This preposition is followed by the instrumental case.

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛs
  • (letter name): IPA: /ɛs/

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s (lower case, upper case S)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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  • Previous letter: r
  • Next letter: t

[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Pronunciation

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s lower case (upper case S)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called so or es and written in the Latin script.

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ʃ/
  • (letter name): IPA: /ˈɛʃː/

[edit] Conjunction

s

  1. (poetic) and (short variant of és (“and”))

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s

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Hungarian alphabet, pronounced sh as in she.

[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

s m. and f. inv.

  1. See under S

[edit] Portuguese

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s lower case (upper case S)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called esse and written in the Latin script.
    • 2007, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Rocco, page 350:
      Harry mal respirava: será que a sorte, a pura sorte poderia livrá-los dessa encrenca?
      Harry was badly breathing: maybe luck, pure luck could save them from that trouble?

[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /se/, /es/

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s (lowercase, capital S)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /s/. Preceded by r and followed by ş.

[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Etymology 1

See Translingual section.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /s/

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s (Cyrillic spelling с)

  1. The 24th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by r and followed by š.

[edit] Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *sъ, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱom.

[edit] Alternative forms

  • (see usage notes) sa

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[edit] Preposition

s (Cyrillic spelling с)

  1. (with instrumental) with, together with, along with
    raditi s nekim — to work with somebody
    svađati se s nekim — to quarrel with somebody
    ratovati s nekim — to wage war with somebody
    d(j)evojka s plavom kosom — a girl with blonde hair
    s godinama dolazi mudrost — with age comes wisdom
    s ljubavlju — with love
  2. (with instrumental) miscellaneous prepositional senses in various phrases
    što je s tobom? — what's wrong with you?
    s vremenom — in time
    pozdraviti se s nekim — to greet somebody
  3. (with genitive) from, off
    pao sam sa stabla — I fell from the tree
    s druge strane — on the other side
    sa zapada — from the west
    s leđa — from the back
    promatrati s prozora — to observe from the window
    ljudi s planine — people from the mountain
  4. (with genitive) because of (= iz, zbȍg)
    s tog razloga — for that reason
[edit] Usage notes

s takes the alternative form sa in the following environments:

  • before /s, š, z, ž/:
    sa stránē — aside
    sa škȏlōm — with school
    sa zȗbom — with tooth
    sa živòtom — with life
  • before consonant clusters where the second consonant is /s, š, z/:
    sà psom (sa psȍm) — with dog
    sa pšènicōm — with wheat
    sa ȑzānjem — with neighing
  • before instrumental form of first-person pronoun jȃ (“I”)
    sȁ mnȏm — with me

[edit] Etymology 3

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[edit] Abbreviation

s (Cyrillic spelling с)

  1. (grammar) neuter gender (srednji rod)

[edit] Slovak

[edit] Preposition

s

  1. with

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[edit] Slovene

[edit] Preposition

s

  1. with

[edit] Spanish

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s (lower case, upper case S)

  1. The 20th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Abbreviation

s

  1. page; Abbreviation of sida.
  2. Swedish Social Democratic Party; Abbreviation of Socialdemokraterna.

[edit] Turkish

[edit] Letter

s lower case (upper case S)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Turkish alphabet, called se and written in the Latin script.

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