We have been/become/made friends for three months.

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xiaoen

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Hi,
Suppose that I have a friend whose name is Kevin. I want to introduce him to some other people.

Hello. This is Kevin. We have been/become/made friends for three months.
Hello. This is Kevin. We have been/become/made friends since three months ago.

I have some doubts on the brown and blue parts. I don't know how to say such a sentence.
By the blue part I want to say that it's about three months that we are friends. We didn't know each other 5 or 6 months a go.

 

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Only 'We have been friends for three months' and 'We became friends three months ago' are natural.
 

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You could say "We have become friends over the last three months".
 
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How about "We made friendship three months ago"? Is that correct, too?
 

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How about "We made friendship three months ago"? Is that correct, too?

You make friend with someone but you don't make friendship.

Our friendship lasted/has lasted three months.
We began our friendship three months ago.
 

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You make friends with someone but you don't make friendship.
Your other suggestions are not natural, tedmc.
Your other
 
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Another suggestion, what do you think about it?

"We started/began being friends three months ago."
 
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