I want to say "I'm sleepy" in Spanish. How to say it?
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“Yo tengo sueño” is what I say when I am sleepy. It would directly translate to “I am sleepy”. Another way to say you are sleepy is “Yo estoy cansado” which would more directly translate to “I am exhausted”
“Tengo sueño “ probablemente sea la mejor frase para expresar “I am sleepy” en español. Otras expresiones más coloquiales podrían ser . Me estoy sobando, estoy frito, me caigo de sueño, estoy cansado…
- Angela Okeke-RamosNative Spanish speaker living in UK for 15 years with experience tutoring from A level to GCSE.
Hi I'm from Spain and we say : Estoy frita ( I am fried quite literally what it would be if you were to translate it) which is used when you are tired to the point where you cannot keep your eyes open because of how sleepy you are. Tengo sueño is not as intense as the above. It just means I am yawning because of how tired I am.
- Teacher
You could also say Estoy somnoliento.
A good translation for “I’m sleepy” into Spanish is “tengo sueño”
Tengo sueño.
- Kelly SaeterosMajoring in AP Spanish Fluent in both Spanish/English
Tengo mucho sueño , Estoy con sueño
Estoy muerto de sueño, tengo mucho sueño, me duermo, and many more.
- HyaBanegasNative Spanish speaker with 4 years of experience in the English language
Hi actually You can say that like, "tengo sueño ", "estoy cansado/a"," Ya no jalo", estoy exausto/a , "me caigo del cansancio" thats like the most used in my country, Ecuador.
you said in estoy durmiendo
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