Hello everybody! Feeling good today? Well, I’m feeling wonderful posting a brand new tip so you can improve your Spanish. Talking about feelings, translating the verb to feel into Spanish can be a tricky business. Let’s check out how some common sentences with feel in English are translated into Spanish:
1. Feeling an emotion.
Me siento muy triste. – I feel very sad.
Se siente confuso cuando tiene que elegir entre uno u otro. – He feels confused when he has to choose between one or the other.
Estoy muy feliz. – I feel very happy. I am very happy.
Ella tenía miedo. – She was afraid. She felt afraid.
Tengo celos de mi hermano. – I’m jealous of my brother. I feel jealous of my brother.
De repente ella se enojó. – She suddenly got mad. She suddenly felt mad.
2. Sentirse como … - Feel like (something)
Se sintió como un extraño en su nueva escuela. – He felt like a stranger at his new school.
Me siento como una reina. – I feel like a queen.
3. We generally use the verb tener to express “feeling with your senses”.
Tengo frío. – I am cold. I feel cold. It feels cold.
Tengo hambre. – I am hungry. I feel hungry.
4. When “to seem” can be substituted for “to feel,” you can often translate using the verb parecer.
Parece que va a llover. – It feels like it’s going to rain.
La herramienta me parece útil. – The tool feels useful (to me).
5. When feel means to touch it is translated as palpar or tocar.
El médico me palpó la pierna. – The doctor felt my leg.
Toca esta piel de zorro. Te traerá buena suerte. – Feel this fox skin. It’ll bring you luck.
6. To translate “to feel like doing something” you can use verbs of desire, like querer, preferir or tener ganas.
Quiseria ir al cine. – I feel like going to the movies.
Prefiero salir con mis amigos. – I feel like going out with my friends.
No tengo ganas de ir a la escuela. – I don’t feel like going to school.
7. And last, but not least, when you express opinions using “feel” you can say:
Creo que … - I feel that …
Supongo que … - I suppose that …, I feel that …
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