"Siempre me siento cansado."
Translation:I always feel tired.
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Or it may be depression. Anyway it is a reason to visit doctor. Take care of you health guys
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So sentir always needs a pronoun, even when it is unnecessary for a specific case? You would never say that sentence with anything besides "me," so why is it necessary? I can't feel tired to you, after all.
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Just "like that"? And you should just remember which verbs act that way? It's not that I don't believe you or anything, but if it's possible for you - or anyone else - I would really love to hear an explanation for that, since it's a mystery to me :)
Still a beginner but I believe it's because the verb is "sentirse" i.e. reflexive.
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the verbs are reflexive, like sentirse, ducharse, despertarse, etc, and when conjugating them, you use the pronouns me, te, se, nos, os, and se in front of the conjugation
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I agree that this should also be accepted. The gerund form of the verb here implies that it's something unpleasant that is happening more often than one would desire.
If someone asked you "Do you feel tired today?" you might reply "I feel tired always." Otherwise its usually "I always feel tired."
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English's adverb placement rules are a mess. Usually if you have an adverb ("always") that modifies the verb ("feel"), you place it in front of the full verb of the sentence, unless that verb is a form of "to be". So "I always feel tired" is the better option here, but I might be picking nits.
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I put Always I feel tired. Would it be excepted if there was a coma after always? Figured they wanted I first., but what makes placing the I after the always wrong?
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They wanted the "I" first. The way you said applies to poetic or Old English grammar. Not the kind of order you say casually.
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You need to use the me in this sentence. But you can add yo if you want: "Yo siempre me siento cansada."
If you describe a feeling with an adjective (cansado, feliz, enojado, etc.), you need to use a form of sentirse, including a reflexive pronoun:
- Me siento cansado. - I feel tired.
- ¿Te sientes fría? - Do you feel cold?
- No se sienten enojados. - They don't feel angry.
If you describe the thing you feel with a noun, you use the direct form sentir instead:
- Siento tu calor. - I feel your warmth.
- Siente hambre. - He feels hunger. (literally)
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strange, I wrote= I am always tired, it was marked correct but it said "another correct solution" = I always feel tired. ? d.l. it's free.
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Yes. :)
Sentir is the transitive form that you use with noun objects. Sentirse is the pronominal form that's used if you describe the feeling with an adjective.
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Does "sentir" mean "feel" or "to be felt?" Because why is there always a "me" next to it?
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Sentir means "to feel", and you can feel other things if you want:
- Siento esta mesa. - I feel (i.e. touch) this table.
Sentir is used as the transitive form and sentirse (the stuff with me and friends in front of it) is the reflexive form. Specifically that means that sentir is used when you express the feeling (or what you feel) with a noun, and sentirse is used when you use an adjective. Some examples:
- Siento el viento. - I feel the wind.
- ¿Sientes hambre? - Do you feel hungry? (lit. "Do you feel hunger?")
- Sentimos la tristeza del mundo. - We felt the sadness of the world.
- Me siento enojado. - I feel angry.
- ¿Te sientes bien? - Do you feel well?
- No nos sentimos fríos. - We are not feeling cold.
- Te siento. - I feel you. (The touchy kind, not the "I understand your pain" kind.)
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"Always I feel tired" Why was this marked wrong. It is correct and a direct translation
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It is neither. English has weird adverb rules, but generally adverbs. like "always", influence a word next to them. "Always I feel tired" thus means that "It's always me who's feeling tired". This is not what the Spanish sentence is expressing. In the Spanish sentence, the adverb siempre is right in front of to the verb "me siento", and not next to the subject yo.
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Adverbs usually demand to be placed close to the word they influence. If you say "Always I feel tired", it sounds like you want to say "It is always me who feels tired". On the other hand "I always feel tired" has the intended meaning here: "I feel tired all the time."
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For me, this was a listening question where you type the sentence in Spanish afterwards. I got it right because it was simply typing what was said, but I do have one question about it. The speaker was female, but she used "cansado." I thought because she was female, that she would have to use "cansada." Was Duolingo wrong, or am I misunderstanding?
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You're understanding it right, cansado refers to a male person, and cansada to a female one. But Duolingo is not necessarily wrong. Rather, it is programmed in such a fashion that every sentence can be spoken by any speaker. So you can either imagine that the (female) speaker is quoting a (male) person, or that Duolingo's speakers do not have a fixed gender.
"Always I feel tired" is not the way most English speakers would say it. -unless maybe the person was very upset about it, and said "ALWAYS I feel tired!" -even then, most English speakers would say "I ALWAYS feel tired!"
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"I feel always tired" must be an available option too;it is possible to say it
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It is, but it doesn't go with modern grammar. It's something you would hear from the 19th century, and definitely not something you say a lot.
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21st century m- oh I'm tired - ott- so tired- o - (snores)
