"Lei è la mia fidanzata."

Translation: She is my fiancée.

[haoy]

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"?

[DeanG6]

You should buy a ring and propose.

[CecilieO.]

You can, it's just a little more formal way of saying it.

[Brancoli99]

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!

[MonkGonzo]

I agree completely. Duolingo should either accept the spelling one way or the other-- Duolingo shouldn't mix and match! :(

[SamPelts]

Just chiming in to say that this extremely frustrating issue from 4 years ago still has not been resolved!

[Yomalyn]

...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)?

[ilDavido]

Not the first time I have got an answer wrong because of my (native) English spelling failing me.

[thmarchi]

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.

[mukkapazza]

Stick to that: fiancée = female, fiancé = male

[DeanG6]

I did not realize the female form has an extra "e".

[Johnny_Lingot]

Nor did I. Glad to know this. Don't want to get engaged to the wrong type :P

[Toshinaga]

The female have many, many, manyyyyyy extras, not only "e" :))

[thmarchi]

Thanks! You've all been very helpful. I'm almost at level 9! WOOT!

[mukkapazza]

Sounds like you're taking on owl tendencies ;)

[Graiff]

I typed in "fiancee" out of laziness and it marked it as wrong. That's some proper, A-level b...

[ci4ic4]

Everywhere else "girlfriend" is accepted for "fidanzata", except here. I mean, who uses the word "fiancée" anymore in colloquial English?

[Giuliaccia]

You use fiancée if you're engaged, girlfriend if you're not.

[AvrilHardman]

Quite right!!

[Soglio]

I still find the words "fiancée" and "fiancé" to be in common use in the US.

[KoL051]

Everybody uses it!!!

[Caterinabella]

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.

[pfnuesel]

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?

[marcsfishe]

Fidanzata is not a relative, so you need "la"

[Johnny_Lingot]

Not yet. Otherwise she would be your wife!

[hanna958948]

now when is it a girlfriend and when is it a fiancé. Duolingo is not very clear in this.

[JosephT.Madawela]

Why is girlfriend wrong?

[luizsalomon]

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).

[mattttw]

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

[Johnny_Lingot]

Or because we just don't know any better :P

[KateMcCabe4]

Two questions before this fidanzata was girlfriend. Now is does not accept girlfriend. He must have given her a ring between questions!

[RoxanneCob1]

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.

[YuriMykolayevych]

Some etymology of this: http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/fiancee

[IanHale0]

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....

[roxannagiovanna]

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?

[Robbadob]

A fiancée is a girl who is engaged but not married. The French word to refer to a female would be « femme » .

[PHN04]

Suddenly DL didn't give me an accent bar just when I needed it!

[C0kVebf7]

how can I answer correctly when you do not offer the accents as an option.

[NikyRathbo]

I'm surprised a fiancée isn't close enough to drop the article