collocation · informal
get married to
UK/ɡet ˈmærɪd tuː/US/ɡet ˈmærəd tu/get MAR·ried to
Band 4-5speakingtask2
to become someone's husband or wife
Examples
“She plans to get married to her boyfriend next summer.”
“They got married to each other after five years together.”
“We might get married to someone we met at uni.”
Band 8 sentence
“After graduating we planned to travel for a year and then get married to the person we trusted most.”
Collocations
- get married to someone
- get married young
Word family
marry verbmarriage nounmarried adjective
Common mistakes
marry with→get married to
is getting marry to→is getting married to
Say it for a higher band
5marry with→6marry→7+get married to
Synonyms
marry
Easily confused
marry
“They decided to marry in the summer.”
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