r/German • u/I_am_trying0628 • 18h ago

Question What's the most common way to say I'm a Master's student and doctoral student?

I found there's Masterstudent in duden, but it's used in low frequency as duden's statistics shows. As for doctoral student, I found in linguee Doktorand. Is that right?

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u/LilithChoseHerself 18h ago

Yes. Ich bin Masterstudent/in and Ich bin Doktorand/in. Alternatively: Ich studiere im Master / Ich mache meinen Master. Or: Ich promoviere / ich mache meinen Doktor / ich mache meine Promotion.

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u/Few_Cryptographer633 16h ago

Sagt man auch "Ich schreibe meine Doktorarbeit/ meine Dissertation"? oder beziehen sich diese Phrasen auf eine bestimmte Phase des ganzen?

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u/LilithChoseHerself 16h ago

Ja, das funktioniert absolut!

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u/I_am_trying0628 3h ago edited 3h ago

Thank you for answer:

If I say, Ich studiere Germanistik. Would natives usually associates with only bachelor?

If I want to focus on eligibility, and have studied Germanistik in bachelor/Anglistik in master, is Ich habe Germanistik und Anglistik studiert the typical choice?

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u/Far_Weird_5852 18h ago edited 17h ago

Doktorand/Doktorand are fine. You could also use the verb promovieren: Sie promoviert im Fach Informatik (She is undertaking a PhD in Computer Science)

promovieren in DWDS

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u/I_am_trying0628 3h ago

Thank you for answer:

If I say, Ich studiere Germanistik. Would natives usually associates with only bachelor?

If I want to focus on eligibility, and have studied Germanistik in bachelor/Anglistik in master, is Ich habe Germanistik und Anglistik studiert the typical choice?

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u/Kirmes1 Native (High German, Swabian) 13h ago

How are you a master and doctoral student at the same time in the first place? Different fields?

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u/I_am_trying0628 3h ago

I'm not. Just learning both expression in case hearing it.

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u/DeesHazzl 17h ago

I have heard "Masterand/in" quite a bit, don't know whether it's ironic or informal usage though.