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Fiancée and Fiancé

7/18/2015

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Summer is a popular time to get married or plan a marriage proposal. The weather is usually easier to predict and there's plenty of sunshine.

People usually propose marriage with an engagement ring. This confirms their engagement, they then have a wedding to marry each other and become a legal couple. In some cultures, it's not always necessary to propose with a ring first. Sometimes a couple just decides together to get married.

During the time a couple is engaged together, the man is known as a fiancé (masculine) and a woman is a fiancée (feminine). A lot of people get confused between these two words.
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A fiancé is a man who is engaged to be married. A fiancée is a woman who is engaged to be married. These are words borrowed from the French language (we call these 'loan words'). Although both words are spelled differently, they are both pronounced in English as either fi-ahn-say or fee-ahn-say. I have heard both of these before.

I'm having some technical difficulties posting the pronunciation for these words so you can listen, but will have it up as soon as possible.
My husband proposed to me in 2011(As you've probably guessed, I said yes!). We were engaged and I became his fiancée and he became my fiancé for about one year. We planned our wedding and were married in November 2012 to become husband and wife! It's still hard to believe that we've been married for almost three years now. It feels just like yesterday!

How long were you a fiancée or fiancé for? Do you have such words in your culture?
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Manfred
3/28/2016 11:30:50 am

Thanks for the great explanation. Were you able to solve the technical problems? I would love to hear the pronunciation.

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Patricia Serenini link
5/30/2016 06:44:03 pm

Hey!
First of all, congrats on your blog, it is amazing!
I'm an English Teacher in Brazil and here we use the same two words (noivo/noiva) to refer to engaged, fiancé (noivo), fiancée (noiva) and also on the wedding day. Groom (noivo) and bride (noiva).
Actually, both, wedding and marriage, in Portuguese is casamento.
I love teaching this, and with your illustration it's going to be even more interesting.

Thanks a lot!

Regards from Brazil!

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The English Student
5/31/2016 11:05:01 am

Hello Patricia!

Thanks for sharing the terms in Portuguese! Language is so interesting and I guess also what makes learning a new language so challenging, every language has its own rules and cultural background. I hope your students will enjoy this illustration!

Best, Jenny

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Roni
9/19/2016 09:09:37 am

Hi Patricia, same thing in Spanish. Those 2 languages are so similar!

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Nora
5/1/2017 02:46:06 am

Hello Roni, in Spanish noivo is novio and noiva is novia.

Regards from Mexico! :)

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Manfred
12/13/2017 12:35:21 pm

Do you already know when we can expect the update with the pronunciation? Can we help you in any way to solve the technical problems?

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kendra link
10/31/2019 12:42:27 pm

hello

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Blushing link
3/17/2022 08:12:10 am

Well, I consider it is so explained, I am from El Salvador, here we speak spanish, but, as you see you can learn English, since the situation of our economy make us look for more opportunities and, I am trying to get more knowledge in this lenguage. We called to the person to whom you are going to be married "novia", in the case of women, and "novio" for male.

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Cake Pop Accessories link
6/11/2023 04:02:04 am

Thoughtful blog thanks for posting

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