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faizalkv

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Please tell me a single word for "The girl that i am going to marry"
 

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Please tell me a single word for "The girl that I am going to marry"
Welcome to the forum, faizalky.
If you've already asked her to marry you and she has accepted, she is your fiancée.
 

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. . .and you are her fiancé.
 

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Originally Posted by faizalkv
Please tell me a single word for "The girl that i am going to marry"


"Fiancé(e)" is French but it has been adopted into English. There is an English word "betrothed" but it is ancient and very rarely used.
 

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I agree with bhai.

The same comment applies to yet another word: 'intended'.

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