3 Natural Ways to Say 'I'm Tired' in English | Real English Vocabulary

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Hey Eat Sleep Dreamers, how are you? Now you guys join somewhere really special. Check
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it out! I'm at the Olympic park in London and this is where in 2012 we had the Olympic
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games, the swimming finals. Now I've just been swimming in that actually pool, it's amazing.
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Now I know I probably should be at work but I've actually got a week's holiday this week
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so I thought well why not do a few things that I don't normally do in London and then
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I thought well why not swimming in the Olympic swimming pool. How cool is that? It's so cool!
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Anyway, so it reminded me that I wanted to teach you guys a few a few cool words so after
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an hour's swimming I feel quite tired, in fact I feel very tired so I thought why not
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teach you guys three informal ways to say 'very tired'. So the first one is 'I'm shattered'
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ok again this is British English, informal British English. I feel very tired, I'm shattered.
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Another one is 'I feel worn out' or 'I'm worn out'. Ok, it's a nice one and the last one
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is 'I'm knackered'. Now be careful with this one because you don't want to say 'I'm naked'.
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Completely different meaning, the person listening to you will feel very surprised so it' a slightly
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stronger /r/ sound knackered. Not nay, Knackered. Alright? Three great phrases, so now you can
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say 'I feel very tired' in British English. So if you guys know any of those phrases tell
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me. If you know any other phrases, I'd love to hear them and also if you want to come
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swimming in the Olympic swimming pool with me, let me know and maybe one day we can go
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together. Alright guys, thanks for hanging out with me. This is Tom, the English Hipster,
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saying goodbye.
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