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classmate
A male student who attends or attended the same school class.
Ich habe gestern zufällig einen alten Klassenkameraden aus der Grundschule getroffen.
Yesterday I happened to run into an old classmate from elementary school.
The word is made up of 'die Klasse' (class) and 'der Kamerad' (comrade / companion). So a 'Klassenkamerad' (classmate) is literally a 'Kamerad' from your school class.
Mein bester Freund war auch mein Klassenkamerad.
My best friend was also my classmate.
'Klassenkamerad' (classmate) is a noun of the N-declension. This means it gets the ending '-en' in all cases except the nominative singular.
Ich habe meinem alten Klassenkameraden beim Umzug geholfen.
I helped my old classmate with the move.
The word is very often used with the adjectives 'alt' (old) or 'ehemalig' (former) to talk about people you used to be in a class with.
Bei dem Treffen war auch ein ehemaliger Klassenkamerad von mir.
A former classmate of mine was also at the meeting.
classmate
Mitschüler and Klassenkamerad both refer to a boy from the same school environment. Mitschüler can mean that you attend the same school, while Klassenkamerad explicitly requires that you are in the same class. Use Klassenkamerad when you are in the same class, and Mitschüler when you share only the school or both the school and the class.
Tom ist mein Klassenkamerad, weil wir jeden Morgen in derselben Klasse sitzen.
Tom is my classmate because we sit in the same class every morning.
Tom ist mein Mitschüler an derselben Schule, aber er geht in eine andere Klasse.
Tom is my classmate at the same school, but he is in a different class.
