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Estonian
Etymology
From German Student.
Pronunciation
Noun
tudeng (genitive tudengi, partitive tudengit)
- student
- Synonyms: (obsolete) student, (obsolete) studioosus, üliõpilane
1926-1933, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, chapter XXXVII, in Tõde ja õigus (Truth and Justice), page 409:Kolmanda kooliaasta kevadel otsis nimelt vallakirjutaja endale abilist ja pöördus kord naljatades köstri poole, et see võiks oma «tudengitest» mõne temale kantseleisse anda.- In the spring of his third year at school, the parish clerk was looking for an assistant, and once jokingly asked the bishop to give some of his “students” to his office.
Usage notes
- Although not an uncommon term, üliõpilane is much more preferred.
Declension
References
- tudeng in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “tudeng”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009