Seminar

See also: seminar and seminář

German

Etymology

From Latin seminarium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zemiˈnaːr/, [ze.miˈnaː(ɐ̯)], [ˌzɛ-], [ˌzeː-], [-mɪ-], [-ˈnaːʁ]

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• Rhymes: -aːɐ̯, -aː

Noun

Seminar n (strong, genitive Seminares or Seminars, plural Seminare)

1. seminar (small-group university class similar to a school lesson)

   Coordinate terms: Kolloquium, Sprachkurs, Tutorium, Übung, Vorlesung

2. department (subdivision of a faculty)

   Synonym: (may also be the next higher level) Institut

3. seminary (school for clergy)

   Synonyms: (Protestant) Predigerseminar, (Catholic) Priesterseminar

Declension

Declension of Seminar [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Seminar	die	Seminare
genitive	eines	des	Seminares, Seminars	der	Seminare
dative	einem	dem	Seminar, Seminare1	den	Seminaren
accusative	ein	das	Seminar	die	Seminare

¹Now rare, see notes.

Descendants

• → English: seminar (see there for further descendants)
• → Estonian: seminar
• → Finnish: seminaari
• → Japanese: ゼミナール (zemināru)
• → Russian: семинар (seminar)
  • → Kazakh: семинар (seminar)

Further reading

• “Seminar”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Seminar” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Seminar” in Duden online
• Seminar on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de