"How long are you married?"

[Odessa Dawn]

Which one is more common, please:

"How long are you married?"

OR

"How long have you been married?"

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[Raymott]

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'.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Which one is more common, please:

"How long are you married?"

OR

"How long have you been married?"

​

Both would be correct in AmE.

 

[bhaisahab]

Which one is more common, please:

"How long are you married?"

OR

"How long have you been married?"

​

The first is wrong in BrE.

 

[konungursvia]

The first would be wrong in Canadian English.

 

[Raymott]

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?

 

[Barb_D]

I don't find it natural at all.

 

[BobK]

The first is wrong in BrE.

:up:, unless the answer is 'You are married for the rest of your life'. ;-)

b

 

[MikeNewYork]

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.

 

[BobK]

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.

b

 

[konungursvia]

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.

 

[SoothingDave]

It's completely odd to me.

 

[MikeNewYork]

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.

b

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