Stop saying: “Emma is married with a teacher.”

Say instead: “Emma is married to a teacher.” · A2 · Prepositions

✗ Wrong

Emma is married with a teacher.

✓ Correct

Emma is married to a teacher.

Why?

In English, married is followed by to, not with. You are married to a person, and you get married to a person. With sounds natural in many languages, but it is wrong here.

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🎙️ REAL VOICES

The three correct examples below, in a real voice.

✗ He got married with his girlfriend last year.

✓ He got married to his girlfriend last year.

✗ Is she married with Chris?

✓ Is she married to Chris?

✗ They have been married with each other for years.

✓ They have been married to each other for years.

Married takes to — two people, joined by to.

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