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Etymology
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Verb
feel like (third-person singular simple present feels like, present participle feeling like, simple past and past participle felt like)
- To have a desire for something, or to do something.
I didn't feel like working yesterday, so I called in sick.
- To perceive oneself to resemble (something); to have the sense of being (something).
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.
- To feel that something is likely to happen; to predict.
- I feel like it will rain all week.
- She felt like the dog could start biting at any moment.
- To give a perception of something; to appear or to seem
- It felt like rain, but it barely drizzled.
- It feels like Gerald is the likely suspect.
- (meteorology, impersonal) Denotes the apparent temperature.
Usage notes
- feel like can be followed by either a noun or by a gerund e.g. After a long day chopping wood, I felt like (taking) a bath.
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Translations
have a desire for something, or to do something
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bengali: ইচ্ছা হওয়া (bn) (iccha hōẇa)
- Catalan: venir de gust (ca), abellir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 想要 (zh) (xiǎngyào), 想 (zh) (xiǎng), 有興趣／有兴趣 (zh) (yǒuxìngqù)
- Danish: have lyst til
- Dutch: zin hebben
- Esperanto: emi (eo)
- Estonian: viitsima
- Finnish: tehdä mieli, huvittaa (fi), viitsiä (fi)
- French: avoir envie (fr) de
- German: Lust haben auf
- Hebrew: בא (he) (ba) (+ the subject in dative case + a verb in nonfinite form or a noun)
- Hungarian: van kedve (hu)
- Icelandic: langa í, nenna
- Ingrian: kehata
- Irish: fonn a bheith ort chun
- Italian: avere voglia di
- Japanese: ほしい hoshii (ほしい hoshii)
- Ladin: avëi ueia de
- Portuguese: ter vontade de, querer (pt), estar a fim de
- Russian: (the person wanting in dative +) хоте́ться (ru) impf (xotétʹsja), (the person wanting in dative +) хоте́лось бы (xotélosʹ by), хоте́ть (ru) impf (xotétʹ) (politeness is expressed by adding бы (by) to the past tense forms, e.g. "я хоте́л(а) бы" - "I'd like" (m/f)), жела́ть (ru) impf (želátʹ)
- Spanish: tener ganas de, apetecer (es), estar por la labor
- Swedish: känna för
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perceive oneself to resemble