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female student
A female person who is enrolled at a university, college, or university of applied sciences in order to obtain an academic degree.
Als Studentin der Kunstgeschichte verbringt sie viel Zeit in Museen und Archiven.
As a female student of art history, she spends a lot of time in museums and archives.
'Studentin' (female student) is the feminine form of 'der Student' (the male student). The ending '-in' is used as standard in German to form the feminine form of many professions and personal designations.
Die beste Studentin des Jahrgangs hielt eine Rede.
The best female student of the year gave a speech.
The word belongs to the word family around 'studieren' (to study). This also includes 'der Student' (the male student), 'das Studium' (the degree program/studies), and 'der Studiengang' (the degree program). If you know one word from this family, you can understand the others more easily.
Als Studentin muss man viel für sein Studium lernen.
As a female student, you have to study a lot for your degree.
To indicate the field of study, people often use the genitive or the preposition 'an' (at). One is 'Studentin der Medizin' (a female student of medicine) or 'Studentin an der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften' (a female student at the faculty of economics/business studies).
Meine Schwester ist Studentin der Psychologie in Berlin.
My sister is a female student of psychology in Berlin.
schoolgirl / female student
Schülerin and Studentin can both refer to a young woman who is taught by a professor at a university or college. Studentin emphasizes her enrollment at the institution, whereas Schülerin emphasizes the personal teaching relationship and also fits outside a school. The key question, therefore, is whether the focus is on the institution or on the teaching relationship.
Die Studentin besuchte an der Hochschule das Seminar der Professorin.
The female student attended the professor’s seminar at the university.
Die Professorin lobte ihre Schülerin für die Fortschritte im Klavierspiel.
The professor praised her student for her progress in playing the piano.
