Hello aprahamian.talar If I understand your question correctly, you're asking how to translate “ Are you a student ? ” in Japanese. 1) If it is obvious to the other person what the topic is, you will have: 学生ですか。 学生 ( がくせい) means “ student” general word. You have also大学生 (だいがくせい) for “ university student ”and so on… です: in this context it means "are”. The particle か is a question marker. 2) Without any context the translation 学生ですか。doesn’t enable to know which person we are talking about. The subject in English could be “you” , “he”, “she”… In that case you have to indicate the topic of the sentence which is, in your case, “you” translated by あなた and to use the particle は which is the topic marker. Your sentence becomes: あなたは学生ですか。 That was an attempt to answer your question, hope that will help. But I might not have understood your message, then please try to rephrase it more clearly. Have a nice day.