student

See also: Student, stúdent, stüdent, študent, and Študent

English

Etymology

From Middle English student, studient, from Old French estudiant, estudiente, from Latin studēns, present participle of studeō (“dedicate oneself to, study”). Equivalent to study +‎ -ent.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstjuː.dənt/, /ˈst͡ʃuː.dənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.dənt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈst(j)uː.dənt/
  • (dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈstɪʊ.dənt/
• Hyphenation: stu‧dent

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -uːdənt

Noun

student (plural students)

1. A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.

   Synonyms: candlewaster, scholar, devotee, disciple

   She is a student of human interactions.

   He is a student of life.

   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 271, column 1:

     I am not tall enough to become the function well, nor leane enough to bee thought a good Studient : but to be ſaid an honeſt man and a good houſkeeper goes as fairely, as to ſay, a carefull man, & a great ſcholler. The Competitors enter.

   • 1966, E. Yale Dawson, Seashore Plants of Southern Califonria, 3rd printing, Berkley: University of California Press, published 1975, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 6:

     The student of marine life in Southern California should become aware that […] a great many changes have taken place during the past century that have modified the characters of the plant and animal communities of the seashore.

2. A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.

   The students were out raising funds for rag week.

   • a. 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, “Essay XII”, in The Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Goldsmith, volume III, Edinburgh: Geo. Mudie, published 1792, page 71:

     In general, alſo, it may be obſerved, that a greater degree of gentility is affixed to the character of a ſtudent in England than elſewhere ; by which means our clergy have an opportunity of ſeeing better company while young, and of ſooner wearing off thoſe prejudices which they are apt to imbibe even in the beſt regulated univerſities, and which may be juſtly termed the vulgar errors of the wiſe.

   • 1868, Charles Haight Farnham, quoting Francis Parkman, Autobiography, quoted in “Spiritual Growth”, in A Life of Francis Parkman, Toronto: George N. Morang and Company, published 1900, page 321:

     In behalf of manhood and common sense, he would protest against such a conclusion ; and if any pale student, glued to his desk here, seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruit is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written.

   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎^[2], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180:

     A handful of young students bent on showing their patriotism had stirred up more trouble than they possibly could have imagined.

   1. (in particular) A person who is enrolled at a college or university (as contrasted with a pupil or schoolchild attending a primary or secondary school).

Antonyms

• teacher

Derived terms

• art student
• A student
• exchange student
• grad student
• graduate student
• graduate student descent
• high school student
• honor student
• international student
• legacy student
• mature-age student
• mature student
• medical student
• middle school student
• mud student
• nontraditional student
• non-traditional student
• parent-teacher-student association
• primary school student
• professional student
• student affairs
• student body
• student council
• student driver
• student ghetto
• studenthood
• student hour
• studential
• studentish
• studentless
• student loan
• studently
• student nation
• student number
• student strike
• student syndrome
• student teacher
• student union
• student voice
• studenty
• tertiary student
• traditional student
• transfer student

 

Translations

person who studies a subject

• Afar: barteyna
• Afrikaans: student (af)
• Albanian: nxënës (sq) m, nxënëse (sq) f, student (sq) m, studente (sq) f
• Amharic: ተማሪ m or f (tämari)
• Arabic: طَالِب (ar) m (ṭālib), طَالِبَة f (ṭāliba), تِلْمِيذ m (tilmīḏ), تِلْمِيذَة f (tilmīḏa)

  Egyptian Arabic: طالب m (ṭāleb), طالبة f (ṭāleba)

  South Levantine Arabic: طالب m (ṭāleb), تلميذ f (tilmīz)

• Armenian: ուսանող (hy) (usanoġ), ստուդենտ (hy) (student)
• Assamese: ছাত্ৰ (satro) (male), ছাত্ৰী (satri) (female), ছাত্ৰ-ছাত্ৰী (satro-satri)
• Asturian: estudiante (ast) m or f
• Azerbaijani: tələbə (az)
• Basque: ikasle
• Belarusian: студэ́нт m (studént), студэ́нтка f (studéntka)
• Bengali: ছাত্র (bn) (chatro), তালিব (bn) (talibo), শাগরেদ (bn) (śagred)
• Bole: pukara
• Breton: studier (br)
• Bulgarian: студе́нт m (studént), студе́нтка f (studéntka)
• Burmese: ကျောင်းသား (my) (kyaung:sa:), ကျောင်းသူ (my) (kyaung:su) (female)
• Catalan: estudiant (ca) m or f
• Cherokee: ᏗᏕᏠᏆᏍᎩ (didetloquasgi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 學生／学生 (hok⁶ saang¹, hok⁶ sang¹)

  Dungan: щүәсын (xüəsɨn)

  Eastern Min: 學生／学生 (hŏk-sĕng)

  Hakka: 學生／学生 (ho̍k-sâng)

  Hokkien: 學生／学生 (zh-min-nan) (ha̍k-seng)

  Jin: 學生／学生 (xyeh⁵ seng¹)

  Mandarin: 學生／学生 (zh) (xuéshēng)

  Wu: 學生／学生 (⁸ghoq-san)

• Cornish: studhyor m
• Czech: student (cs) m, studentka (cs) f
• Danish: studerende (da) c
• Dutch: student (nl) m, studente (nl) f
• Esperanto: studento (university, ♂♀), virstudento (university, explicitly ♂), studentino (eo) (university, explicitly ♀), gestudentoj (university, collective ♂♀), studanto (♂♀), virstudanto (explicitly ♂), studantino (explicitly ♀), gestudantoj (collective ♂♀)
• Estonian: üliõpilane, tudeng, õpilane, ^{(please verify)} õppija
• Faroese: lesandi m
• Finnish: opiskelija (fi), tutkija (fi)
• French: étudiant (fr) m, étudiante (fr) f, élève (fr) m or f
• Galician: estudante m or f
• Georgian: მოსწავლე (mosc̣avle), სტუდენტი (sṭudenṭi)
• German: Student (de) m, Studentin (de) f; Lernender (de) m Lernende (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐍀𐍉𐌽𐌴𐌹𐍃 m (sipōneis)
• Greek: μαθητής (el) m (mathitís), μαθήτρια (el) f (mathítria), σπουδαστής (el) m (spoudastís), σπουδάστρια (el) f (spoudástria), ^{(please verify)} μελετητής (el) m (meletitís)

  Ancient: μαθητής m (mathētḗs), μαθήτρια f (mathḗtria)

• Guaraní: temimbo'e
• Gujarati: વિદ્યાર્થી m (vidyārthī)
• Hausa: ɗalibi (ha)
• Hawaiian: haumāna
• Hebrew: סְטוּדֶנְט (he) m (studént), סְטוּדֶנְטִית f (studéntit), תַּלְמִיד (he) m (talmíd), תַּלְמִידָה f (talmidá)
• Hiligaynon: estudyante, palatuon
• Hindi: विद्यार्थी (hi) m or f (vidyārthī), छात्र (hi) m or f (chātra), स्टूडेंट m (sṭūḍẽṭ) (colloquial), तालिब (hi) m (tālib), तालिबा (hi) f (tālibā), छात्रा f (chātrā), शिष्य (hi) m (śiṣya), शिष्या (hi) f (śiṣyā), मुरीद (hi) m (murīd)
• Hungarian: hallgató (hu), tanuló (hu), diák (hu)
• Icelandic: nemandi (is) m
• Indonesian: murid (id), pelajar (id), siswa (id) m, siswi (id) f
• Irish: mac léinn m (male or female)
• Italian: studente (it) m, studentessa (it) f, ^{(please verify)} studioso (it) m, ^{(please verify)} studiosa (it) f
• Japanese: 学生 (ja) (がくせい, gakusei)
• Javanese: siswa (jv)
• Jeju: ᄒᆞᆨ셍 (hawkseng)
• Kabyle: anelmad m, tanelmadt f
• Kalmyk: оютн (oyutn)
• Kannada: ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿ (kn) (vidyārthi)
• Kazakh: студент (student), оқушы (oquşy)
• Khmer: កូនសិស្ស (koun səh), និស្សិត (km) (nɨhsət)
• Korean: 학생(學生) (ko) (haksaeng)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قوتابی (ckb) (qutabî), تەلەبە (telebe)

  Northern Kurdish: qutabî (ku), telebe (ku), şagirt (ku)

• Kyrgyz: студент (ky) (student), окуучу (ky) (okuucu)
• Lao: ນັກສຶກສາ (lo) (nak sưk sā)
• Latin: studēns m or f or n, discipulus (la) m, discipula f
• Latvian: students m, studente f
• Ligurian: studénte ?
• Lithuanian: studentas m, studentė f
• Luhya: mwanafunzi ?
• Luxembourgish: Student m
• Macedonian: студе́нт m (studént), студе́нтка f (studéntka)
• Malay: pelajar (ms), murid (ms)
• Malayalam: വിദ്യാർത്ഥി m (vidyāṟtthi), വിദ്യാർത്ഥിനി f (vidyāṟtthini)
• Maltese: student m, studenta f
• Manchu: ᡨᠠᠴᡳᠰᡳ (tacisi), ᡧᠠᠪᡳ (šabi)
• Maori: ākonga
• Maranao: morit
• Marathi: विद्यार्थी m (vidyārthī), विद्यार्थिनी f (vidyārthinī)
• Mingrelian: მოგურაფუ (mogurapu)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: оюутан (mn) (ojuutan), сурагч (mn) (suragč)

  Mongolian: ᠣᠶᠤᠲᠠᠨ (oyutan), ᠰᠤᠷᠤᠭᠴᠢ (suruɣči)

• Navajo: ółtaʼí
• Nepali: विद्यार्थी (vidyārthī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: student m

  Nynorsk: student (nn) m

• Occitan: estudiant (oc) m
• Odia: ଛାତ୍ର (or) (chātra), ଚାଟ (or) (cāṭa)
• Old English: leornere m
• Old Javanese: śiṣya
• Old Saxon: ^{(please verify)} giungaro m, jungaro m
• Ottoman Turkish: تلمیذ (tilmiz), طالب (talib), درسخوان (darshuan), شاگرد (şagird)
• Pannonian Rusyn: студент m (student), студентка f (studentka)
• Pashto: محصل (ps) m (mohasel), محصله f (mohasela), طالب (ps) m (tāleb)
• Persian: دانِشْجو (fa) (dânešju), مُحَصِّل (fa) (mohassel) (Dari), طالِب (fa) (tâleb), طالِبِ عِلْم (tâleb-e 'elm) (lofty), شاگرد (fa) sg (šāgerd), دانش‌آموز (fa) (dānešāmūz)
• Plautdietsch: Scheela m
• Polish: student (pl) m, studentka (pl) f, uczeń (pl) m, uczennica (pl) f
• Portuguese: estudante (pt) m or f, aluno (pt) m, aluna (pt) f, estudioso (pt) m, estudiosa f
• Quechua: yachakuq (qu)
• Romagnol: alév m, aliév m
• Romani: siklǒvno m, siklǒvni f
• Romanian: student (ro) m, studentă (ro) f
• Romansch: student m, studenta f (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader), studentessa f (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)
• Russian: студе́нт (ru) m (studént), студе́нтка (ru) f (studéntka), уча́щийся (ru) m (učáščijsja), уча́щаяся (ru) f (učáščajasja)
• Sanskrit: शिष्य (sa) m or f (śiṣya), छात्त्र (sa) m (chāttra), विद्यार्थिन् (sa) m (vidyārthin), ^{(please verify)} छात्त्रा f (chāttrā)
• Scots: collegianer
• Scottish Gaelic: oileanach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сту̀дент m, сту̀дентица f (Croatia, Bosnia), сту̀денткиња f

  Roman: stùdent (sh) m, stùdentica (sh) f (Croatia, Bosnia), stùdentkinja f

• Sinhalese: ශිෂ්යයා (śiṣyayā)
• Slovak: študent (sk) m, študentka (sk) f
• Slovene: študent (sl) m, študentka f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: student m, studentka f

• Spanish: estudiante (es) m or f
• Swahili: mwanafunzi (sw) class 1/2, mwanachuo (sw) class 1/2, mwanagenzi (sw) class 1/2
• Swedish: student (sv) c, studentska (sv) c (female), elev (sv) c
• Tagalog: estudyante (tl), mag-aaral
• Tajik: донишҷӯ (tg) (donišjü), шогирд (tg) (šogird), студент (tg) (student), толиби илм (tolib-i ilm) (lofty)
• Tamil: கற்பவன் (ta) (kaṟpavaṉ)
• Tatar: студент (student)
• Telugu: విద్యార్థి (te) m (vidyārthi)
• Thai: นักเรียน (th) (nák-riian)
• Tibetan: སློབ་མ (slob ma), སློབ་ཕྲུག (slob phrug), སློབ་གཉེར་བ (slob gnyer ba)
• Tigrinya: ተመሃራይ ? (tämäharay)
• Turkish: öğrenci (tr)
• Turkmen: student, talyp, okuwçy
• Ukrainian: студе́нт (uk) m (studént), студе́нтка f (studéntka)
• Urdu: طالِبِ عِلْم m (tālib-i 'ilm), چھاتْر m or f (chātr), طالِب m (tālib), اِسْٹُوڈینْٹ m (isṭūḍenṭ), اِسْٹُوڈِنْٹ m (isṭūḍinṭ), مُرِید m (murīd), دانش جو (dāniś-jū), دانش آموز (dāniś-āmoz), شاگرد (śāgird), طالبہ (tāliba), تلمیذ (tilmīz), درس خواں (dars-xvā̃)
• Uyghur: ئوقوغۇچى (oqoghuchi), ئىستودېنت (istodënt), ستودېنت (stodënt), تالىپ (talip)
• Uzbek: student (uz), talaba (uz) m, o'quvchi (uz), tolibi ilm (lofty)
• Vietnamese: học sinh (vi) (學生), sinh viên (vi) (生員)
• Volapük: studan (vo) (♂♀), histudan (♂), jistudan (♀), studanef (collective ♂♀), histudanef (collective ♂), jistudanef (collective ♀)
• Welsh: myfyriwr (cy) m, myfyrwraig f
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Wutunhua: lhoma
• Yiddish: סטודענט m (student), תּלמיד m (talmid)
• Yoruba: akẹ́kọ̀ọ́
• Yucatec Maya: xoknáal
• Zazaki: taleb, musayer c, musayoğ (diq), musayoğ (diq) c
• Zhuang: lwghag, hagseng

person enrolled at a school, university or other education institution

• Arabic: طَالِب (ar) m (ṭālib), طَالِبَة f (ṭāliba), تِلْمِيذ m (tilmīḏ), تِلْمِيذَة f (tilmīḏa)

  Egyptian Arabic: طالب m (ṭāleb), طالبة f (ṭāleba)

• Bulgarian: учени́к (bg) m (učeník)
• Catalan: alumne (ca) m, estudiant (ca) m or f
• German: Lernender (de) m, Lernende (de) f (only used as an umbrella term)
• Hindi: तालिब (hi) m (tālib), तालिबा (hi) f (tālibā)
• Irish: dalta m
• Persian: دانشجو (fa) sg (dānešjū), دانش‌آموز (fa) sg (dānešāmūz) (for school), شاگرد (fa) sg (šāgerd)
• Polish: uczeń (pl) m, uczennica (pl) f
• Quechua: yachachisqa
• Spanish: alumno (es) m, estudiante (es) m or f, discente (es) m, educando (es) m or f
• Sylheti: ꠍꠣꠔ꠆ꠞ (sátr)
• Tajik: шогирд (tg) (šogird)
• Yoruba: akẹ́kọ̀ọ́
• Yucatec Maya: xoknáal

person enrolled at a university — see also university student

• Albanian: nxënës (sq) m
• Arabic: طَالِب (ar) m (ṭālib), طَالِبَة f (ṭāliba)
• Armenian: ուսանող (hy) (usanoġ)
• Azerbaijani: tələbə (az)
• Basque: ikasle
• Bulgarian: студе́нт m (studént), студе́нтка f (studéntka)
• Catalan: alumne (ca) m, estudiant (ca) m or f, universitari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 學生／学生 (hok⁶ saang¹, hok⁶ sang¹)

  Hokkien: 學生／学生 (zh-min-nan) (ha̍k-seng)

  Mandarin: 學生／学生 (zh) (xuéshēng)

• Czech: student (cs) m, studentka (cs) f
• Danish: studerende (da) c
• Dutch: student (nl) m, studente (nl) f
• Esperanto: studento (university, ♂♀) , virstudento (university, explicitly ♂), studentino (eo) (university, explicitly ♀), gestudentoj (university, collective ♂♀)
• Estonian: üliõpilane
• Finnish: opiskelija (fi), ylioppilas (fi)
• French: étudiant (fr) m, étudiante (fr) f
• Georgian: სტუდენტი (sṭudenṭi)
• German: Student (de) m, Studentin (de) f; (officialese now often) Studierender (de) m, Studierende (de) f; (rarely) Hochschüler (de) m, Hochschülerin (de) f
• Greek: φοιτητής (el) m (foititís), φοιτήτρια (el) f (foitítria)
• Hawaiian: haumāna
• Hiligaynon: estudyante, palatuon
• Hindi: विद्यार्थी (hi) m or f (vidyārthī), छात्र (hi) m or f (chātra), तालिब (hi) m (tālib), तालिबा (hi) f (tālibā), छात्रा f (chātrā)
• Hungarian: egyetemista (hu), főiskolás (hu)
• Indonesian: mahasiswa (id) m, mahasiswi (id) f
• Irish: mac léinn m
• Italian: studente (it) m, studentessa (it) f
• Japanese: 学生 (ja) (がくせい, gakusei)
• Kazakh: студент (student)
• Korean: 학생(學生) (ko) (haksaeng)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قوتابی (ckb) (qutabî), تەلەبە (telebe)

• Latin: discipulus (la) m, discipula f, discipulum n, discens m or f or n, studens m or f or n
• Malay: mahasiswa (ms)
• Malayalam: വിദ്യാർത്ഥി m (vidyāṟtthi), വിദ്യാർത്ഥിനി f (vidyāṟtthini)
• Nepali: विद्यार्थी (vidyārthī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: student m

  Nynorsk: student (nn) m

• Pashto: محصل (ps) m (mohasel), محصله f (mohasela)
• Persian: دانِشجو (fa) (dânešju), مُحَصِّل (fa) (mohassel) (Dari)
• Polish: student (pl) m, studentka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estudante (pt) m or f, académico (pt) m (Portugal), académica f (Portugal), acadêmico (pt) m (Brazil), acadêmica (pt) f (Brazil), aluno (pt) m, aluna (pt) f
• Romanian: student (ro) m, studentă (ro) f
• Russian: студе́нт (ru) m (studént), студе́нтка (ru) f (studéntka)
• Scottish Gaelic: oileanach m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: student m, studentka f

• Spanish: estudiante (es) m or f, alumno (es) m, alumna (es) f, universitario (es) m
• Swahili: mwanafunzi (sw) class 1/2, mwanachuo (sw) class 1/2
• Swedish: student (sv) c, studentska (sv) c (female)
• Tagalog: estudyante (tl), mag-aaral
• Tajik: донишҷӯ (tg) (donišjü)
• Telugu: విద్యార్థి (te) m (vidyārthi)
• Thai: นักศึกษา (th) (nák-sʉ̀k-sǎa)
• Turkish: üniversiteli (tr), üniversite öğrencisi (tr)
• Urdu: طالِب عِلم (tālib ilm), چھاتر (chātra)
• Vietnamese: sinh viên (vi) (生員)
• Volapük: studan (vo) (♂♀), histudan (♂), jistudan (♀), studanef (collective ♂♀) , histudanef (collective ♂), jistudanef (collective ♀)
• Welsh: myfyriwr (cy) m, myfywraig f
• Yoruba: akẹ́kọ̀ọ́

schoolchild, pupil, person attending school — see schoolchild

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Translations to be checked

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} discipulus (la) m, ^{(please verify)} discipula f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} оюутан (mn) (ojuutan), ^{(please verify)} сурагч (mn) (suragč)

See also

• learner

Anagrams

• stunted

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch student.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

student (plural studente)

1. student

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian студент (student).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: stu‧dent

Noun

student

1. student

Declension

Declension of student

	singular	plural
nominative	student	studentler
genitive	studentniñ	studentlerniñ
dative	studentke	studentlerge
accusative	studentni	studentlerni
locative	studentte	studentlerde
ablative	studentten	studentlerden

References

• “student”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstudɛnt]

• Audio:

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Noun

student m anim (female equivalent studentka, related adjective studentský)

1. student (academic, at university)

   Synonym: študák

Declension

Declension of student (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	student	studenti
genitive	studenta	studentů
dative	studentovi, studentu	studentům
accusative	studenta	studenty
vocative	studente	studenti
locative	studentovi, studentu	studentech
instrumental	studentem	studenty

Derived terms

• studentský

 

Related terms

• studentka
• studium
• studovat
• studovna

 

See also

• žák
• posluchač

Further reading

• “student”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “student”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “student”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

Etymology

From Latin studēns, a present participle of studēre (“to favour, study”). Compare also English student, German Student.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sd̥uˈd̥enˀd̥]

Noun

student c (singular definite studenten, plural indefinite studenter)

1. a person who has graduated from gymnasium
2. student (at a university)

   Synonym: studerende

Declension

Declension of student

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	student	studenten	studenter	studenterne
genitive	students	studentens	studenters	studenternes

Further reading

• “student” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “student” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin studēns, present participle of studēre (“to study”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /styˈdɛnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: stu‧dent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

student m (plural studenten, diminutive studentje n, feminine studente)

1. (Netherlands) a student at an institute for academic tertiary education
2. (Belgium, Suriname) a student at an institute for secondary or tertiary education. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Derived terms

• geneeskundestudent
• rechtenstudent
• spookstudent
• studentencorps
• studentenflat
• studentenhuis
• studentenhuisvesting
• studentenkamer
• studentenstad
• studentenvereniging
• studentikoos

 

Related terms

• studeren

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: student (dated)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.dent/, [ˈs̠t̪ʊd̪ɛn̪t̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.dent/, [ˈst̪uːd̪en̪t̪]

Verb

student

1. third-person plural present active indicative of studeō

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Latin studēns, present participle of studeō.

Noun

student m anim (feminine studentka)

1. student (person who studies an academic subject; person enrolled at a university)

Declension

Declension of student

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	student	studenta	studenty
Genitive	studenta	studentowu	studentow
Dative	studentoju	studentoma	studentam
Accusative	studenta	studentowu	studenty, studentow
Instrumental	studentom	studentoma	studentami
Locative	studenśe	studentoma	studentach

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from German Student, from Latin studēns.

Noun

student m (definite singular studenten, indefinite plural studenter, definite plural studentene)

1. a student (at university or college)

Derived terms

• medisinstudent

References

• “student” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from German Student, from Latin studēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʉːdɛnt/

Noun

student m (definite singular studenten, indefinite plural studentar, definite plural studentane)

1. a student (person enrolled at a university)

Derived terms

• medisinstudent

References

• “student” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /styˈdɛŋt/

Noun

student m

1. student

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Student, ultimately from Latin studēns. First attested in the 16th century.. Compare Kashubian sztudent and Silesian sztudynt.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈstu.dɛnt/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.dɛnt/, /ˈstu.dent/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -udɛnt
• Syllabification: stu‧dent

Noun

student m pers (female equivalent studentka, diminutive studencik or studenciak, augmentative studencina)

1. (education) student, university student (person who is enrolled at a college or university)

   Synonym: żak

   Hypernym: uczeń

2. (education, obsolete) student, pupil (person who learns at a school)

   Synonym: uczeń

Declension

Declension of student

	singular	plural
nominative	student	studenci/studenty (deprecative)
genitive	studenta	studentów
dative	studentowi	studentom
accusative	studenta	studentów
instrumental	studentem	studentami
locative	studencie	studentach
vocative	studencie	studenci

Derived terms

adjective

• studencki

 

Related terms

adverb

• studencko

 

nouns

• studenckość
• studenteria

 

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), student is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 4 times in scientific texts, 44 times in news, 25 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 80 times, making it the 809th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• student in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• student in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “STUDENT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 01.10.2010
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “student”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “student”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “student”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 483

Romanian

Noun

student m (plural studenți, feminine equivalent studentă)

1. college student

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	student	studentul		studenți	studenții
genitive-dative	student	studentului		studenți	studenților
vocative	studentule			studenților

See also

• elev
• elevă

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stǔdent/
• Hyphenation: stu‧dent

Noun

stùdent m (Cyrillic spelling сту̀дент)

1. student (usually at a college or university)

Declension

Declension of student

	singular	plural
nominative	student	studenti
genitive	studenta	studenātā
dative	studentu	studentima
accusative	studenta	studente
vocative	studente	studenti
locative	studentu	studentima
instrumental	studentom	studentima

Further reading

• “student”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɵˈdɛnt/

• Audio (Gotland):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

student c

1. a student (at a college or university – compare elev)
   1. an undergraduate
2. (before 1968) a person with a gymnasium (upper secondary school) diploma
3. a (recent) gymnasium graduate

   ta studenten

   graduate from gymnasium

   (literally, “take the student [idiomatic]”)

Usage notes

"I was his student" and the like in the general sense is more idiomatically "Jag var hans elev."

Declension

Declension of student

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	student	students
	definite	studenten	studentens
plural	indefinite	studenter	studenters
	definite	studenterna	studenternas

Derived terms

• studentexamen
• studentkår
• studentmössa
• studentorkester
• studentoverall
• studentsång
• ta studenten

 

See also

• elev

References

• student in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• student in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• student in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tatar

Noun

student

1. student

Declension

    declension of student

Nominative	student
Genitive	studentnıñ
Dative	studentqa
Accusative	studentnı
Locative	studentta
Ablative	studenttan

References

• universitetnı tämamlağan student ikän