das Semester
Meaning in English: semester, term
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Sie ist jetzt im dritten Semester.
She's now in her third semester.
Der, die or das?
Semester is neuter: das Semester. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Semester?
Semester is number 1,537 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 60 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Semester:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,533Sachenthings, stuff
- 1,534inklusiveincluding, included
- 1,535finanziellefinancial
- 1,536der BundestagBundestag (German parliament)
- 1,537das Semestersemester, term
- 1,538eingeladeninvited
- 1,539die Innenstadtcity centre, downtown
- 1,540ergebento result in, to yield
- 1,541Klassenclasses, grades
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,537
- The most common German nouns#596
- German B1 vocabulary#476
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#77
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.