179: Hambre, frío, and other feelings

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In Spanish, are you "hungry" or do you "have hunger"? Let's explore a bunch of Spanish nouns that can describe how you feel, including words for pain, pleasure, and pity. We'll also get a variety of practice with these new nouns in a variety of Spanish sentences.

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0:00.0	It's an honor and a pleasure.
0:05.1	Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.
0:10.1	I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.
0:15.2	Today we're going to learn some new nouns for feelings,
0:18.6	so that we can talk about things like pain, pleasure, and pity.
0:24.2	But to talk about this, we have to go over how Spanish is different from English when it comes
0:29.7	to how you feel. One of the easiest feelings to talk about is hunger, which in Spanish is the
0:36.1	feminine noun, ambre, spelled H-A-M-B-R-E.
0:41.3	Check out this sentence.
0:44.3	Is it because of their hunger?
0:51.3	Now in English, the noun hunger is not very frequent.
0:58.7	Instead, we tend to use the adjective, hungry, to describe how someone is feeling.
1:04.7	For example, we say, I'm hungry, she's hungry, or we are hungry.
1:10.8	However, in Spanish, it's much more common just to use the noun.
1:15.6	So, for example, I have hunger.
1:18.8	She has hunger, we have hunger, and so on.
1:22.8	Here's a full sentence example.
1:25.6	We are hungry.
1:27.3	When are we going to eat?
1:30.7	So to translate the phrase, we are
1:38.1	hungry, we are hungry.
1:39.1	We had to rephrase it as we have hunger.
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