![]() ![]() This usually relates to the body and again it’s just when you have absolutely no energy but it can also refer to the mind like after a long day of test-taking or other hard mental work. Next the word “fatigued.” ED ending making a D here. If you nod off, that’s like when you fall asleep without necessarily meaning to. When I think of this, I think of one time in college, I went to go see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra right after lunch and it was a really good performance but I was just kind of tired!Īnd as I said, I just eaten lunch, it was a big meal, I remember it was Thai and it was so good.Īs I sat there listening this beautiful music, I started to feel kind of sleepy, drowsy, and you know what I did? It’s a little bit different than some of the other ones that we’ve talked about that are more like tired from energy leaving the body. This refer to lack of sleep and being tired in that way, really needing to fall asleep. Now we’re going to go over two: Sleepy and Drowsy.ĭo you remember the dwarf Sleepy from Snow White? I pulled an all-nighter, I didn’t sleep at all, I got the lab done but that next day, I was completely spent. That means stay up all night working on something. This makes me think of this one time in college.Īnd I had a really big lab due the next day and I hadn’t known, I have completely forgotten. If you’re spent, you don’t have any energy left. The next one is “spent.” Think of spending money. ![]() I could also see saying this after a long day of studying or test-taking, your body or your mind, you’re just fried. The next one is “fried.” ED ending, the D makes the D sound fried and it’s just like what it looks like, what you think it would be.Ĭan you imagine you’ve done all that thinking and now your brain is just fried. I hope you’re not feeling at all run down. If you’re really worn down from overwork, stress, a stressful family or life situation that you get sick? I feel like when we’re really run down from working too hard for a month or something that our body’s are sort of more susceptible to getting sick. Speaking of running, The next one is “run down.” This is like you’re just tired. Speaking of worn out, sometimes when I’m playing with Stoney, doing all of that running around, I end up feeling pretty worn out. ![]() You’ll need some new shoes soon, won’t you? Right there on the tip it’s getting worn out. Okay, let’s look and see if it’s getting worn out. He’s constantly running around on them, on the asphalt, on streets, sidewalks, in playgrounds, I get it.Īctually, Stoney’s shoes are fine but Sawyer’s are little worn out. There are some places where it seems like there’s hardly any rubber left. Stoney is my five-year old son and he has this pair of shoes that are sort of a rubbery, plasticky material.Īnd it really looks like they’re worn out. You know, not just people but things can be worn out. You know that’s really how I’m feeling today. It’s sort of like drain, your energy has just been completely wiped out of your body, you have nothing left. Today, I just feel “pooped!” A lot of the phrases we’ll go over today have a word with an ED ending and in this particular word the ED ending is pronounced as a T. ![]() You might just say “I’m beat, I’m just going to go home.” The next one is kind of funny!īut it’s just another way to say “I’m really tired”, “I’m exhausted”. You just don’t have energy, you’re so tired. The next one, “I’m beat.” Let’s say you just played in a basketball game and some of your friends are going out to get pizza and they invite you to go along. I love this one because you can think of water or something draining out of a sink, going down the drain, there’s nothing left and this is what happens with your energy throughout the day, you’re working hard, you’re going, going, going.Īnd at the end of the day, you’re so tired, you’re just drained. I’ve heard that a lot of people after they’re getting the Corona virus vaccine end up feeling completely exhausted the next day. So one of them, I already said and it’s exhausted. Now even though I’m really tired, I think I should probably head to the studio to make this video. Let’s up your creativity and expand your vocabulary in speaking English. Today we’re going to go over 23 different things to say instead of this phrase. You know, there’s actually a lot of different ways in American English to say “I’m tired.” This English training video will increase your vocab and teach you lots of new phrases to talk about feeling tired. Please DON’T say “I’m tired”! But if you are tired, here are 23 different ways to say it. YouTube blocked? Click here to see the video. ![]()
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