When going over a summary of Japanese grammar I came across the following
sentence:

> 私は学生で友だちはいしゃです。

How should this be translated? It supposedly covers the construct of noun+で.
Is it the te-form?
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nouns copula
How to translate the construction "noun + で"
”で” Here is the te-form of the coupla "だ/です" and means simply "is", but it has
the connotation of continuing on with the sentence, instead of ending it like
"だ" would.

So "AはBで。。。" would mean "A is B and..."
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Both nouns( **名詞** ) and na-adjectives( **形容動詞** ) have the same continuative-
form( **連用形** ) which is the form you use in a sentence to keep it going, and
consist in appending **で** to them at the end.

>   * [彼女]{かのじょ} は **[静]{しず}かで** **18[歳]{さい}で** [美人]{びじん}です 。
>   * She's quiet, 18 years old and a beauty.
>

In the example above we chained a na-adjectve followed by a noun(years) – also
chained – and finished with another adjective.
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