Gatte is very formal and perhaps archaic as well?
Not very formal yet formal (and not archaic).
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English Translation
My husband is a good man.
It’s worth noting that the female equivalent is “die Gattin” (the wife), but it turns out there are a bunch of terms for this in German:
der Angetrauter / die Angetraute = the husband, the wife
der Ehemann / die Ehefrau = the husband, the wife
der Ehegatte / die Ehegattin = the husband, the wife
der Ehepartner / die Ehepartnerin = (literally “the marriage partner”)
der Lebensgefährte / die Lebensgefährtin (literally “the life companion”)
You can even say “meine bessere Hälfte” in German, to match the English “my better half”.
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