noun
semester, term
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Semester = semester or academic term. Gender in German: das (neuter). Plural identical: Semester. Declines regularly (Sing. Gen.: des Semesters; Plural Dat.: den Semestern). Used for university terms or school periods. Note: plural form unchanged in nominative/accusative but other cases show declension endings.
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Das Wintersemester beginnt im Oktober.
The winter semester begins in October.
Die Studentengruppe kündigte an, dass sie das Semester abbrechen würde, wenn die Prüfungen zu schwierig wären.
The student group announced that they would drop the semester if the exams were too difficult.
Dieses Semester habe ich drei Prüfungen.
This semester I have three exams.
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Imagine a university calendar page stamped 'Semester' marking the academic period.
sounds like English 'semester' — very similar pronunciation and meaning.
das (neuter) — imagine the semester as a neutral block of time, a calendar 'dash' (das) with no gender.
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In German 'Semester' (das) is neuter and often keeps the same form in the plural: die Semester. It refers to an academic term or half-year at university.