-s

-s or -es may be:

  • an ending used to form the regular English plural
  • an ending used to form the third-person singular present indicative of English verbs
  • a plural or other inflectional ending in certain other languages; see French grammar, German grammar, etc.
  • See also

  • 's (disambiguation)
  • S (disambiguation)
  • , in lower case, also s with diaeresis, is a letter in the Chechen language, where it represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative. It has the same sound as the Slavic š, the Turkish ş and the Albanian "sh".

    In the Chechen language, it was changed from the original ş to the , at the same time the ç was changed into the .

    (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from S with the addition of a vertical line below it. It is used in Yoruba to represent the sound [ʃ] (like English "sh").

    The line is sometimes replaced by a dot, i.e. Ṣ ṣ.

    [s̩] is also the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for a syllabic "s" sound.

    Computer encoding

    Unicode does not include precomposed characters for S̩ s̩—they must be represented with a combining diacritic, which may not align properly in some fonts. Nevertheless, the sequence of base character + combining diacritic is given a unique name. In Unicode:

  • S̩: U+0053 S LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S (HTML S) + U+0329 ̩ COMBINING VERTICAL LINE BELOW (HTML ̩)
  • s̩: U+0073 s LATIN SMALL LETTER S (HTML s) + U+0329 ̩ COMBINING VERTICAL LINE BELOW (HTML ̩)
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