How to translate the construction "noun + で"


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?




”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..."

