doktorado
doktorádo with stress marks
doctorate
Usage Note
Doktorado is a Spanish loanword from doctorado referring to the highest academic degree — a PhD or equivalent. Achieving a doktorado is highly respected in Filipino culture, particularly in education, medicine, and the sciences, and university faculty with doctorates are commonly addressed by their title.
Examples
" May doktorado ang guro namin. "
Natural Translation
Our teacher has a doctorate.
Literal Translation
There-is doctorate the teacher our.
" May doktorado ang aking tito. "
Natural Translation
My uncle has a doctorate.
Literal Translation
There-is doctorate the my uncle.
" Matagal niyang pinaghirapan ang doktorado, kaya tuwang-tuwa ang buong pamilya nang siya ay nagtapos. "
Natural Translation
She worked hard for her doctorate for a long time, so the whole family was overjoyed when she graduated.
Literal Translation
Long-time she-by toiled-for the doctorate, so very-glad the whole family when she finished.
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