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How do you say "full-time student" in Spanish?

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Yoodle15
January 29, 2012, 07:34 AM
Thanks in advance.

wrholt
January 29, 2012, 08:07 AM
The typical expressions for "full-time" are:

a/de jornada completa
a/de tiempo completo

Based on the dictionaries I've checked so far, typically one uses the preposition "a" when using the expression as an adverb and one uses the preposition "de" when using the expression as an adjective. Therefore:

a full-time student = "un/una estudiante de jornada completa" or "un/una estudiante de tiempo completo".

For comparison, "part-time" is:
de medio tiempo (adj or adv)
a tiempo parcial (adj or adv)

Some of the dictionaries I've checked say that "de medio tiempo" is used in Latin America and that "a tiempo parcial" is used in Spain.

Don José
January 29, 2012, 09:58 AM
Some of the dictionaries I've checked say that "de medio tiempo" is used in Latin America and that "a tiempo parcial" is used in Spain.

Yes, we use "a" in all the examples you wrote.

Yoodle15
January 29, 2012, 12:16 PM
Muchas gracias! :)

ROBINDESBOIS
January 30, 2012, 12:56 AM
A full-time student woul be oficial tambien