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Can i call my italian girlfriend fidanzata without her expecting to get a wedding ring very soon? Or should I just continue calling her "la mia ragazza"?
Sometimes it expects fiancé(e) with an accent and other times it accepts them without. Because of the inconsistencies I have got several answers marked as wrong!
I agree completely. Duolingo should either accept the spelling one way or the other-- Duolingo shouldn't mix and match! :(
Just chiming in to say that this extremely frustrating issue from 4 years ago still has not been resolved!
...In my experience, I have NEVER been marked wrong for excluding accents. (I always skip them because I'm lazy, haha). Are you sure you weren't being marked incorrect for fiance (man) vs fiancee (woman)?
Is "fiancée" a feminine form? I wrote "fiance" before and it was okay, but it might have been for a guy...I can't remember.
Nor did I. Glad to know this. Don't want to get engaged to the wrong type :P
Yes it is, but in English, the 'word "fiancée" does not exist, and in any Eglish keyboard, as we all know, 'we have no accents of vowels {French, German, Italian and Spanish) or on consonants in Rench and Spanish. And yes the word fiancée is indicates a 'female'.
Not the first time I have got an answer wrong because of my (native) English spelling failing me.
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Everywhere else "girlfriend" is accepted for "fidanzata", except here. I mean, who uses the word "fiancée" anymore in colloquial English?
I typed in "fiancee" out of laziness and it marked it as wrong. That's some proper, A-level b...
I got this right, just didn't put the accent over the proper "e". But there were no letters to select from under the space for translation.
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now when is it a girlfriend and when is it a fiancé. Duolingo is not very clear in this.
The fact is: from french, fiancé is male and fiancée is the female. When the sentence has a Lei, then is she (yes, lei can be used for male, but formally, and not here in Duolingo).
BUT, in English, we often use "fiance" for both male and female, more and more so recently as the need to distinguish genders becomes less important
Two questions before this fidanzata was girlfriend. Now is does not accept girlfriend. He must have given her a ring between questions!
Wikipedia states there is a feminine spelling with ee on the end. But it is not widely used. As an English major and crossword fiend, I have never heard or seen ee at the end.
Why is it "la mia fidanzata" and not only "mia fidanzata"? For members of my family I should not use the article, I was told. Hence it's "mia sorella", not "la mia sorella". Is my fiancée not part of the family?
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As Duolingo does not accept "fiancees" - getting huffy about the accent which is not usually available on a US or English keyboard - I now use "Betrothed" which is accepted. Wonderfully Fogeyish and really cool....
Just to inform duolingo that in English 'THERE ARE NO ACCENTS OVER ANY WORD!' As it ocurs in French, italian and Spanish. FIANCE IN ENGLISH>>>>does not have an accent! Fiance! fiancé+ is a THE FRENCH SPELING FOR>>>the english SPELLING+ FIANCE>>>>WITHOUT AN ACCENT!!!!!
WHAT DOES dUOLINGO MEAN WITH THE FOLLOWING? Another correct solution: She is my fiancée. Where in English can we find the word: "fiancée", a french word for a female?
No one uses the correct version of fiance/fiancee in English, even though they're grammatically correct. They are synonymous in everyday english.
I'm a native English speaker and have never heard fiance/ fiancee used in real life. Maybe it's something posh people use :-) ?? Seriously, it could be different social vocab- you know like one person saying "sofa", another "settee" and another sitting on the floor...
I put fiancee and it was wrong. Next time I put fiance and it was STILL wrong. Pick up your game Duolingo. Bloody angry!
what about "she is my spouse"? The possible correct answers should be multiple since "fidanzata" has several meanings depending into what language you translate it. Fidanzata equals with wife, spouse, fiancée, girlfriend, partner, ... (leaving the legal status of married or not simply beside)
i have never heard anyone refer to their spouse as "fidanzata/o"... girl/boyfriends & engaged partners, yes.
