"Lei è la mia fidanzata."
Translation:She is my girlfriend.
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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!
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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)?
I agree. I usually don’t even bother with the accents out of laziness and I’ve never been marked wrong in any language. Still, I think it ought to accept both with and without the final e since this isn’t a French course and I would bet many people don’t know that rule anyway.
Not the first time I have got an answer wrong because of my (native) English spelling failing me.
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
The word 'betrothed', which is still in use, covers both sexes; so, no need to worry about accents or the number of e's.
I typed in "fiancee" out of laziness and it marked it as wrong. That's some proper, A-level b...
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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 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.
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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now when is it a girlfriend and when is it a fiancé. Duolingo is not very clear in this.
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.
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
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....
how can I answer correctly when you do not offer the accents as an option.
Sometimes you accept fiance as spelling correctly and other times you say spelling should be fiancée
