I'm trying to figure out what the chinese equivalent of "I do" would be. Is there a phrase that people say in Chinese that represents getting married? Or is there a direct translation for "I do"?
Thanks for the help!
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Sign up to join this communityTo answer this ,we have to trace back to the question asked when proposing/ getting married.
The question you should ask a girl is : 你願意嫁給我嗎?
Well, if you are proposing to a boy : 你願意娶我嗎?
These two different verbs 嫁 and 娶 for "marry" are due to traditional Chinese culture.
The standard answer to a 你願意__嗎?
question would be : 是 (YES)
or 是,我願意 (YES,I do)
or simply 我願意(I do)
我愿意
.
It has become a fixed idiom for I do
.