"Du isst."
Translation:You eat.
December 23, 2012
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not really. Both are very similar in a normal conversation. Therefore it makes fun to say: 'Man ist, was man isst.' and 'Man isst, was man ist.' or 'Man isst, was man isst.'? If one wants to make it clear, one speaks the double s longer than the single s.
If you see a double s like in isst, frisst, Wissen, missen, messen, essen, vergessen ... the vowel in front of the ss is a short one. The ss is sharp.
If you see ß, like in Maß the s -sound is sharp, but the vowel is long.
If you see a single s, like in Hase, Vase, Nase, Blase, eine Misere... the s is not sharp, it is a voiced s.
A st-sound at the begin of a word is a 'scht' or 'sht' sound, you find it in Stern, Strauß, Strafe, Streit, steil, Stolz, ...