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  • Hi Bob the Canadian here.

  • It's been a long day for me and I'm kind of tired.

  • So I thought in this video I would help you learn ten different English phrases to describe

  • when you're feeling tired.

  • Hi Bob the Canadian here, welcome to this video.

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  • lessons that I'm giving to you.

  • So, you're tired and you wanna be able to describe it.

  • In this video I'll look at ten different ways to say that you're tired in English,

  • and I'm actually kind of tired as I'm making this video so there's a good chance

  • I'll probably mess things up a little bit, but let's go through them.

  • Number one, you can simply say, “I'm tired.

  • I'm very tired, it's been a long day and I'm really really tired.”

  • All of those would be great ways to let someone know that you're tired.

  • Another way to say that you're tired is to say, “I'm worn out.”

  • So if you think about a machine, when a machine runs for a long time it gets worn out.

  • In English you can describe yourself as being worn out.

  • It's been a long day, I'm worn out.

  • I can't wait to go home.

  • I'm worn out.

  • A third way to say that you're tired is to say, “I'm pooped.”

  • And this sounds kind of funny because I'm not sure if you know yet what poop is.

  • When you eat food eventually you have to poop.

  • But we do in English when we're describing being tired say, “I'm pooped.”

  • I'm totally pooped right now, because I worked so hard today I'm now totally pooped.

  • Or I'm pooped out.

  • Both of those would also be ways to describe being tired, and I'm not joking we do actually

  • say that in English.

  • Hah, phew, I'm pooped.

  • Another way to say that you're tired in English is to simply say, “I'm sleepy.”

  • There's a bit of a difference here though, when I'm when I say I'm tired it doesn't

  • necessarily mean that I want to go to sleep, but when I say I'm sleepy, it usually means

  • I'm having trouble keeping my eyes open.

  • Maybe my head is nodding a little bit, when I'm supposed to stay awake so to say that

  • you're tired you can also say, “I'm sleepy.”

  • Another way to say you're tired in English is to say, “I'm whipped.”

  • I'm just completely whipped, and whoo, I had a really long day today, I, I worked super hard

  • and I'm just whipped.

  • I'm whipped, I'm tired.

  • Another way to say that you're tired in English, and this one you don't hear as

  • much anymore, but you should still know it because you might read it in a book is to

  • say, “I'm tuckered out.”

  • or “I'm just tuckered out.”

  • It's kind of an older saying, but you will see this if you read occasionally you'll

  • see someone say, “Well I've ridden the horse all day and I'm just tuckered out.”

  • Again meaning that you're really really tired.一

  • Another way to say that you're tired in English is to describe yourself as if you're

  • a car and to say, “I'm , I'm out of gas.

  • I'm just out of gas today.”

  • or “I just don't have any more gas in the tank.”

  • And that would be a way like if let's say you're brother said, “Hey, come over and

  • help me move some stuff in my backyard today.”

  • You could say, “Look I'm, I'm just out of gas.

  • I am so tired I just need to stay home and rest.

  • The gas tank's empty bro!"

  • Not going to be able to help you today.”

  • Another way to describe being tired is to just say that you're run down.

  • If you say to someone, “I'm run down.”

  • it doesn't mean that someone's run you over, it means that you're just feeling

  • exhausted, so you would say, “I'm just feeling run down today.”

  • Maybe it was a day where you were on your feet all day.

  • Maybe normally you work in an office where you sit, but maybe you're feeling run down

  • because you worked really really hard all day and you were on your feet all day.

  • Another way, and I kind of hinted at this just a little, a few seconds ago is to say,

  • “I'm exhausted.”

  • When you're exhausted it means you've used up all of your energy for the day.

  • It's the end of the day and now you're feeling exhausted.

  • You have no energy left and you would say, “I'm exhausted.”

  • And lastly we have a saying, “I'm ready to call it a day.”

  • Right now I've just finished work.

  • I'm really really tired.

  • Tomorrow I actually have a kind of a busy day.

  • And I, and I'm not really looking forward to it.

  • I don't have a lot of energy left so I'm ready to call it a day.

  • So if you say, “I'm ready to call it a day, Bob!”

  • It means that you're done everything that you need to do for that day and you're ready

  • to just pack it in, relax on the couch, go to bed on time.

  • Bob the Canadian here.

  • That was ten ways to say that you're tired in English.

  • Believe it or not the list is even larger.

  • There are numerous ways in English to say that you're tired, but I hope these ten

  • will help you, either phrases for you to use when you speak English or maybe just to be

  • able to recognize them if you were to read a book.

  • Bob the Canadian here.

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