Saturday, January 17, 2015

Fwd: semestre: Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day <doctor@dictionary.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 3:00 AM
Subject: semestre: Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day
To: "Hector William G." <hectorpinillos@gmail.com>

Spanish Word of the Day
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help

semestre, noun
six-month period, half year

In English we’re used to thinking of a semester in relation to college courses. Spanish el semestre can mean this too, but it also has a more general meaning of a six-month period, or half year. In this meaning people often use it when talking about finance and economics. So, they often use with primer, segundo, último and próximo ? first, second, last, and next.

Durante el primer semestre del año la empresa obtuvo un beneficio neto de 57 millones de dólares.
In the first half of the year, the company made a net profit of 57 million dollars.

Content By

Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/es/	You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com
Unsubscribe	To subscribe to Spanish Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday-es@lists.lexico.com
©2015 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607	Subscriptions to The Spanish Word of the Day can be turned on and off via the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/help/faq/wordoftheday/
	Tell a friend about The Spanish Word of the Day!