"As camisas são para os alunos."

Translation: The shirts are for the students.

[HarbingerSTG]

What is the difference between alunos and estudantes? Is aluna used in reference to college and estudante for primary and secondary education?

[Paulenrique]

It's told aluno is used for those who need a teacher, estudante is the one who can study by himself. Every aluno has to try to be a estudante, that is, needs to study by himself in order to improve knowledge. But, to be true, we use them interchangeably ;)

[Danmoller]

Estudante is used like a profession. "O que seu menino faz?" "Ele é estudante"

Aluno is used for college, primary and secundary educations. And for all those students registered in some learning course.

[RagamalaRokudan]

So is aluno more like "pupils", while estudante is student?

[Paulenrique]

Yes!

[TooTurtley]

Que bom, fiz intercambio no Brasil e não sabia isso! Obrigada

[LinguDemo]

Alunos made me think of Alumni. Is that right, or is that a different word?

[HastaLaVista83]

"aluno" definitely derives from Latin "alumnus" (though the meaning is not the same). So you're right! :-)

[DanielDiAn5]

Duo rejects "The shirts are for the ALUMNI" when it is perfect English. I hope they will change it.

REPORTED ON 8/12/2020 (CORONAVIRUS ERA)

[Mkid1]

Couldn't "Alumni" be used here?

[Paulenrique]

Try reporting.

[FrenchArubian]

That's what I used and it was wrong when clearly it should be right

[10313513]

Is it not pelos alunos?

[malso.malso]

pelos = por os

I am not 100% certain about the difference between 'para' and 'por', but here are my thoughts:

'para' indicates a direction or destination, so the students will receive these shirts

if you'd sell the shirts to raise money for a school trip, i'd say 'pelos' (por os) would be the better choice, it's used as 'for the sake of' / 'in order'

hope that's correct

[VanessaGor8]

Ok so camisas = shirts but not blouses, and blouses = blouses or shirts. Correct?

[JoaoDSouza]

Blusa=blouse,

[JoaoDSouza]

Is aluna=élève?

[Paulenrique]

Yes, both aluno and aluno = élève.

[Raymond704692]

In English the word alumni carries the meaning former student.