"Jag känner mig trött."
Translation:I feel tired.
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Doesn't work. Känner is a transitive verb, meaning it requires an object. You can say jag känner trötthet ("I feel tiredness"), but it doesn't sound very natural.
How do you tell if something is a transitive verb? It would be immensely helpful to know this - Is it just a 'learning' thing?
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I know that "mår" also translates to "feel", so I was wondering if "Jag mår trött" works, or is "mår" only used for other things?
No, with mår you're telling how you feel rather than what. I know that's not super intuitive, but it means you can må bra, må dåligt, må illa, må konstigt, etc. - but not må trött, må piggt, etc.
Gosh, that's quite a sibtle distinction for a learner. I think this will be something that I learn and hopefully with time my understanding will grow and I'll be able to apply it more broadly. Thank you!
No, "Känner" only means "know" when you talk about knowing people.
Otherwise "känner" means "feel".
I know I'm tired - Jag vet att jag är trött
No, känns is only used about how something is experienced by someone else, not how you feel yourself. Read more in this topic: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/6094592
What is the difference between känner and känns?
Am I correct in thinking that känns refers to how something other than oneself feels, while känner refers to how one oneself feels?
Tusen tack! (My Norwegian friends say that—I don't know if it translates well into Swedish.)
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So interesting, that feeling translates as self knowing. After all, what is feeling but subjective truth?
It's more like "feels to myself" - it has nothing to do with knowing in this sense.
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is it more common to say "i feel tired" or I "am tired" and how would I say the latter
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känner suppose to mean know isn't it? and I thought känner oss = feel but this känner alone need 'mig' could somebody elaborate this for me?