German noun, neuter · CEFR B2

das Sommersemester

Meaning in English: summer semester

Rank 4,523 of 5,000noun · dasLevel B2
Learn this word

Add das Sommersemester to your reviews. Progress stays in this browser.

Test my vocabulary

Example

Im Sommersemester schreibe ich meine Bachelorarbeit.

I'm writing my bachelor's thesis in the summer semester.

Der, die or das?

Sommersemester is neuter: das Sommersemester. 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 Sommersemester?

Sommersemester is number 4,523 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 56,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Related words in the list

Sommersemester is built from der Sommer (summer) + das Semester (semester, term).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 4,519zeitgleichsimultaneously, at the same time
  2. 4,520technischertechnical
  3. 4,521inhaltlichecontent-related, substantive
  4. 4,522erledigtdone, dealt with; worn out
  5. 4,523das Sommersemestersummer semester
  6. 4,524transparenttransparent
  7. 4,525der Auftraggeberclient, contracting party
  8. 4,526eingehento go into, to accept; to die (plant)
  9. 4,527die Vergütungpay, remuneration

In these word lists

Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.