"How long are you married?"

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Which one is more common, please:

"How long are you married?"

OR

"How long have you been married?"

 

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Which one is more common, please:

"How long are you married?"

OR

"How long have you been married?"

The first is wrong.
"How long have you been married [for]" is common. This is correct with or without 'for'.
 

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The first would be wrong in Canadian English.
 

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Both would be correct in AmE.
That surprises me greatly. Do you have a good example of it being used? What areas of the US would they say that in?
 

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I don't find it natural at all.
 

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That surprises me greatly. Do you have a good example of it being used? What areas of the US would they say that in?

When I lived in the Midwest, I would hear this use. Perhaps it is a regionalism.
 
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I'm not very good at geography :)oops:), but might this have been in a part of the USA with a strong francophone backgrround (e.g. Louisiana?) I've had French students who had trouble with this point.

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That would be the south... but the US does have lots of little pockets where old things survive. Maybe he's right, in some places.
 

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It's completely odd to me.
 

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I'm not very good at geography :)oops:), but might this have been in a part of the USA with a strong francophone backgrround (e.g. Louisiana?) I've had French students who had trouble with this point.

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That's interesting. There was a French Catholic Church not far from where I grew up. It was surrounded by a large French community.
 
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