Deutsch homophones
das/dass
"das" is a determiner; "dass" is a conjunction - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "das" arrives as a determiner, while "dass" is a conjunction. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "das" then splits - "das" (3 letters) vs "dass" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across das, dass: ads. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
das
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVC
Inventory ads · no private letters vs siblings
dass
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory ads · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "das" when you mean: [1] Nominativ und Akkusativ Singular Neutrum des bestimmten Artikels der
- Write "dass" when you mean: drückt eine Folge des Geschehens aus, Art und Weise oder Grad
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- dass ← adss · daß · ddass · dsas