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French Vocabulary

Emotions, Mood Profiles & Psychological States

Nuanced descriptors of internal conditions including stress, pride, fatigue, anxiety, and enthusiasm, expressed with être, se sentir, and avoir constructions.

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Lesson Summary

Nuanced descriptors of internal conditions including stress, pride, fatigue, anxiety, and enthusiasm, expressed with être, se sentir, and avoir constructions.

Vocabulary

Dire ce que l’on ressent

Basic emotional states such as content, fatigué, and triste have been introduced at the A1 level. This lesson presents a broader set of emotions, together with the grammatical structures used to express them: être + adjective, se sentir + adjective, and avoir + noun.

Émotions avec Être (To be + adjective)

Masculine	Feminine	English
content	contente	happy / pleased
triste	triste	sad
en colère	en colère	angry
stressé	stressée	stressed
calme	calme	calm
inquiet	inquiète	worried
fier	fière	proud
déçu	déçue	disappointed
surpris	surprise	surprised
enthousiaste	enthousiaste	enthusiastic
gêné	gênée	embarrassed

Émotions avec Avoir (To have + noun)

French	English
avoir peur (de)	to be afraid (of)
avoir honte (de)	to be ashamed (of)
avoir raison	to be right
avoir tort	to be wrong
avoir sommeil	to be sleepy
avoir faim	to be hungry
avoir soif	to be thirsty

Autres expressions

Other common constructions used to describe emotional states include:
- Se sentir + adjective: Je me sens fatigué(e) / bien / mal.
- Être de bonne / mauvaise humeur: to be in a good / bad mood.
- Ça me rend + adjective: Ça me rend triste. (That makes me sad.)
- S’inquiéter (pour): to worry (about).
- Se réjouir (de): to look forward to / to be happy about.

For the formation and use of reflexive verbs, see pronominal and reflexive verbs.

Examples

Je suis stressé depuis lundi à cause de l'examen.
The adjective stressé agrees with the masculine singular subject; depuis indicates an ongoing state.
Elle a peur de prendre l'avion, mais elle est fière d'avoir essayé.
Avoir peur de + infinitive; être fière (feminine form) + de + past infinitive.

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