German noun, neuter · CEFR B1

das Wintersemester

Meaning in English: winter semester

Rank 3,190 of 5,000noun · dasLevel B1
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Example

Im Wintersemester beginne ich mein Studium.

I start my degree in the winter semester.

Der, die or das?

Wintersemester is neuter: das Wintersemester. 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 Wintersemester?

Wintersemester is number 3,190 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 37,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Related words in the list

Wintersemester is built from der Winter (winter) + das Semester (semester, term).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,186erheblicheconsiderable, significant
  2. 3,187die Broschürebrochure
  3. 3,188schulischenschool, academic
  4. 3,189Fahrzeugenvehicles (dative plural)
  5. 3,190das Wintersemesterwinter semester
  6. 3,191fairenfair
  7. 3,192die Erhebungsurvey; collection (of data), levy
  8. 3,193Standortelocations, sites
  9. 3,194vollenfull (inflected)

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