• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago
    1. ß isnt used when you have a pair of s letters next to each other. Its most commonly used if you have long vowels beforehand. See “Trasse” vs “Straße”.

    Perhaps worth adding that we had a spelling reform in 1996, which kind of put this rule in place.
    If you learned German before then or had a teacher who learned it before then, it’s possible that you got taught it the old way…