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Much like the English alphabet, German has 26 standard letters. However, the German alphabet contains one additional character and umlauted forms of three vowels.
Lets look at these now
German alphabet letters
Letter | Name (Pronounciation) |
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A | A (ah) |
B | Be (bay) |
C | Ce (tsay) |
D | De (day) |
E | E (ay) |
F | Ef (eff) |
G | Ge (gay) |
H | Ha (hah) |
I | I (eeh) |
J | Jott or Je (yot) |
K | Ka (kah) |
L | El (ell) |
M | Em (em) |
N | En (en) |
O | O (oh) |
P | Pe (pay) |
Q | Qu or Que (koo) |
R | Er (err) |
S | Es (es) |
T | Te (tay) |
U | U (ooh) |
V | Vau (fow) |
W | We (vay) |
X | Ix (iks) |
Y | Ypsilon (oopsilohn) |
Z | Zett (tset) |
Ä | Ä (eh) |
Ü | Ü (uuh) |
Ö | Ö (ouh) |
ẞ | Eszett (ess-set) |
.German has three article forms: der (masculine), die (feminine), and das (neuter), but when talking about letters of the alphabet we use das.
For example: Das A, das B, das C.