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| ashshea Newbie United States Joined 5381 days ago 19 posts - 19 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 1 of 9 23 July 2010 at 9:58pm | IP Logged |
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How do you spell this word in German? I've seen it spelled all three ways and I am very
confused. Is it tschüs, tschüss, or tschüß? I know if you are typing online then you can replace ß with ss. But then why is it sometimes written with only one s? Please help! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5345 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 2 of 9 23 July 2010 at 10:16pm | IP Logged |
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In my book it says Tschüs. But people have corrected me with Tschüss.
By going by wiktionary it says it is both Tschüs and Tschüss. But Tschüß being the old spelling (maybe by the reform). http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tsch%C3%BCss Edited by zekecoma on 23 July 2010 at 10:18pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Declan1991 Tetraglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6440 days ago 233 posts - 359 votes Speaks: English*, German, Irish, French | Message 3 of 9 24 July 2010 at 1:27am | IP Logged |
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Tschüss is the modern spelling. Using ß is pre-reform, because all final double s is ß pre-reform (that's actually where it comes from, a ligature of long s and short s). So I would spell it tschüss (well actually, I'd use tschuess online, but you get what I mean).
I don't know who exactly uses a single s, but it isn't wrong, merely a dialectal difference. Edited by Declan1991 on 24 July 2010 at 1:28am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| JWF Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 5254 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 4 of 9 07 August 2010 at 2:52am | IP Logged |
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Being a German, I would definitly use "tschüss" with the double s as it is most common. The version with the ß is the old version used before writing reform. I personally have never seen "Tschüs",so....
In your book it is probably used in a dialogue, right? I mean you wouldn't use "Tschüss" in writing unless its chatting or very informal writing. Grüße from Germany 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5767 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 5 of 9 07 August 2010 at 7:47pm | IP Logged |
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I usually say it with a long ü so writing it tschüss would be wrong. And whether to write it tschüs or tschüß wouldn't make much of a difference (devoicing of the end consonants)
Saying tschüss with a short vowel sounds really rough to me, and when I hear that I know the other person is actually telling me 'Just leave already!' (Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland here.) .... I can't even say I've ever actually written that word. It's spoken language, not written; not even for texting or emails. I do say it frequently (funnily enough many many times one conversation partner says 'Tschüs!' and the other repeats with 'Tschüs! and then adds 'Auf Wiedersehen!' which the first one repeats - in situations where you aren't close enough to only say tschüs, but Auf Wiedersehen would sound too formal. 8D;) ETA: What was I thinking? Edited by Bao on 10 August 2010 at 6:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5345 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 6 of 9 10 August 2010 at 5:47am | IP Logged |
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Apparently, I'm seeing Tschüss used more than any other.
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| zeme Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie Canada Joined 5892 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English, Polish*, French*, Esperanto Studies: German, Spanish, Toki Pona, Icelandic, Sign Language, Czech | Message 7 of 9 22 September 2012 at 12:08am | IP Logged |
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According to Google Trends, Tschüss is
much more common. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 8 of 9 22 September 2012 at 12:53pm | IP Logged |
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According to the Duden, you can either write "tschüs" or "tschüss". "Tschüß" is old spelling (before the orthography reform of 1996). If you write "tschüs", you would pronounce it with a long ü, while "tschüss" would indicate a short ü. Both variants are equally possible, though there may be regional preferences for the one or the other.
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