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naß

[nas]

adj

LanguageGerman (Germany)

Meaning
  1. Formerly standard spelling of nass which was deprecated in the spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) of 1996.
  2. Formerly standard spelling of nass
  3. An older way to write the German word for wet. It is no longer considered correct according to modern spelling rules.
Examples

Das Wort naß wird heute nass geschrieben.

The word naß is written as nass today.

Früher wurde naß mit einem Eszett geschrieben.

Formerly naß was written with an eszett.

Pronunciationnas

Part of speechadj

Registerarchaic

Usage noteThis spelling is obsolete since the 1996 reform; use 'nass' instead.

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.