Note! Many people and also a lot of Germans mix the
conjunction dass with
the relative pronoun das
(3rd person singular neutral).
Have a look at these phrases.
a)Er sagt, dass
er es macht.
= He says that
he does it.
b)Das
Haus, das
du da drüben siehst, gehört mir.
= The house that
you see over there is mine.
In phrase a) dass
is a conjunction combining two clauses. The conjunction
is written with ss. The
phrase b) das is
a relative pronoun that refers to the neutral word das
Haus.
examples
Er weiß,
dass er das
nicht darf.
= He knows that
he must not do this.
Es ist mir egal,
dass er nicht
kommt. = I don't care that
he doesn't come.
Er langweilte sich
derart, dass er
ging. = He was bored that much that
he left.