What's the difference between 'für' and 'fürs'?

[TrillTy]

I always thought it was 'für' but then I saw 'fürs' in the sentence "Danke fürs lesen"

[xislexstep]

fürs=für + das( for + the ). danke fürs lesen-thanks for the reading.

[TrillTy]

Can you just say 'für'?

[mizinamo]

Not in that sentence, no.

German uses a definite noun there - das Lesen, the (act of) reading, the specific act of reading that just happened and that you are thanking them for.

[xislexstep]

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/für#/search. there are some examples of use on this wikipedia page.

[gemini-x]

'fürs' is short for 'für das'